Cloud computing discussions often turn to the future of cloud—even with my relatives. Over Christmas dinner last year, a lively debate erupted over whether or not all company-owned and operated IT would eventually disappear. One in-law who is a CFO of a software startup believes that, because IT was so easy to do in the cloud “with a credit card,” there was no longer a reason for any company to have a computer room. He cited the example of a large financial services firm who was moving all IT to public clouds. But another in-law pointed out that his company’s IT people had concluded that while cloud is good for some things, it wasn’t for all of his company’s IT and pointed out that the financial services firm cited was only moving front office apps to the cloud. Problem there was latency and security issues—but not at the public cloud site. They worried about latency and security in the network connecting them to the cloud.

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