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Chapter 1: Surveying the State of IT for the Enterprise

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The three‐letter threat
I frequently do speaking engagements in the United States, the
United Kingdom, and Canada. In
the U.S., people’s concerns about
cloud security are quite different
from those in my Canadian and
U.K.‐based audiences. In non‐U.S.
locales, data locality is a major concern. People there fear their data
may end up being housed in the U.S.
on U.S.‐based servers, which could

expose their business to spying by
the U.S. intelligence community. With
that in mind, many cloud providers
have located datacenters all over the
world. Even many SaaS‐based services can be run from these global
locations that are housed outside the
U.S. As businesses, banks, and governments continue to look for ways
to embrace the public cloud, where
their data lives is a critical decision.

People are finally realizing that the public cloud is not a
threat. It’s simply another application delivery option that
CIOs have at their disposal. The industry is realizing that,
with the right provider, even sensitive workloads can be
supported.

Beyond Amazon — Embracing
any cloud
Just as Kleenex is associated with sneezing and Google is
associated with web searching, when IT pros think about
the word cloud, they often immediately think Amazon. While
Amazon, as the public cloud leader, is certainty formidable,
it is far from being the only option available for public cloud
consumption.
All kinds of “as‐a‐service” cloud options that go far beyond
Amazon are available to you. Enterprises must always have an
exit strategy that enables them to switch providers quickly. If
a provider goes out of business or increases pricing to unsustainable levels, you may need to move quickly. You should
always have a way to support any cloud, any time.

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