Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Pity your private cloud, if you have one. If cloud analysts are to be believed, private cloud is losing ground as public cloud providers — chiefly Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft — keep adding features and functions, many of which target enterprise IT buyers.
Last week, for example, Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman blogged that 95 percent of enterprise IT types he surveyed found something lacking in their own private clouds. Of course Bittman loaded the gun for them, distilling the gripes he’d already compiled as reasons “your enterprise public cloud is failing” into key categories and then polling an audience about them at a Gartner event...