Reviews & Opinions

This article was written by Navot Peled and published on IT Business Edge

The benefits of cloud computing are being seriously questioned, and perhaps even undermined, by recent articles and reports in high-tech publications. In the analyst sector, Gartner claims that cloud computing is now close to its "Peak of Inflated Expectations," suggesting that it will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users, while some journalists are highlighting present obstacles that face cloud computing, including concerns such as incompatibility of the different cloud platforms and security issues.

At face value, some of the concerns may seem legitimate, but a closer look illustrates that solutions are available for the problems raised, weakening the attacks on the cloud’s future. Most of the challenges raised to cloud computing relate to developing cloud applications or to the complexities of porting existing applications to different cloud platforms. But behind the scenes, the problems are clear and the solutions either exist or are forthcoming for developers.

For IT managers, the nuances of the problems are merely distractions. To simplify the solution, we can explain it by saying that within the layers that comprise cloud computing, cloud vendors left out an essential layer that is required in order to create a standard, cross-platform, manageable environment for applications.

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