I've always wondered about this. In IT now instead of having 5 system operators one has 10 "cloud consultants" and nobody knows what they are doing. I've been through a couple of "migrations to the cloud" now and I've never seen a reduction in IT staff or the cost of running IT operations.
About the wrong decisioning part, if you chose the wrong "cloud" for your business the cost to change can be enormous.
The primary motivation for management is from what I've seen so far the ability to point to someone else if shit hits the fan, not cost reduction and all that other stuff.
You start wondering if 90% of corporate world are there to do nothing if not erecting roadblocks for people who are actually doing something. But then you start wondering maybe it's a good thing that all of these people get paid and could spend their money so that majority of the country has purchasing power and not live in piss poor poverty.
I've always wondered about this. In IT now instead of having 5 system operators one has 10 "cloud consultants" and nobody knows what they are doing. I've been through a couple of "migrations to the cloud" now and I've never seen a reduction in IT staff or the cost of running IT operations.
About the wrong decisioning part, if you chose the wrong "cloud" for your business the cost to change can be enormous.
The primary motivation for management is from what I've seen so far the ability to point to someone else if shit hits the fan, not cost reduction and all that other stuff.