Geva Perry summarizes results from an IDC survey (Q3 2009) of cloud performance benchmarks. Respondents ranked challenges and problems associated with cloud computing, be it storage or processing, in terms of security, availability, integration issues with the respondent's in-house IT, minimal interoperability standards and more.
He then summarizes findings. Read the comment thread at the end, as I was pleased to see a commenter say that IT Governance needs to be a part of the cloud computing paradigm, just as it should be involved in all other aspects of the enterprise. Geva Perry, the article's author, concurred on this matter, and expanded a bit on it.
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