Moving Towards The Future While Relying On The Old

March 3, 2014

We like to think we’ve left old computing formats in the past, but the Financial Review points out that is a misconception in “Cloud Computing Still Has a Mainframe Lining.” Organizations and governments in Australia are spouting their cloud-based policies left and right. The Australian Information Industry Association commissioned KPMG to estimate how the cloud can benefit the nation’s GDP. It showed that the nation would gain between $2-3 billion.

There has been criticism of the estimate that KPMG did not consider the benefits of on-site computing. KPMG was not asked to include this in their estimate. Australia is not even close to getting rid of their on-site setups. The move to the cloud is coming, but it is moving very slowly.

So mainframes will be around for a while:

“It is worth also noting that server platforms such as the mainframe – pronounced dead several times over the years – ­continue to play a critical role in most of ­Australia’s largest enterprises and government agencies, especially with core financial systems at the heart of the economy.

Australian Government Information Office data says mainframe spending among federal government agencies, for example, has remained around 6 per cent to 7 per cent of total government ICT expenditure for the past few years.”

Are we throwing the baby out with the bath water? For many organizations it is cheaper to remain with on-site computing than switching all functions over to the cloud. Face it, the current generation is entrenched in on-site computers. Cloud computing will take over, eventually.

Whitney Grace, March 03, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext

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