IDC's abacus fiddlers say a third of all IT spend goes on cloud

IDC abacus acrobats have worked out that a third of IT infrastructure spend is going to the cloud, up from just under a quarter a year ago. In IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker it’s revealed that $7.6 Bn was spent on cloud IT infrastructure in the third 2015 quarter. IT infrastructure spend …

[Anonymous Coward]

Cloud? Ah, all that money wasted

still it looked good in the IT budgeting operation this time last year.

It cost a lot more than it saved.

Thankfully the Accountants pulled the plug on it on Dec 31. Now it is all back in-house.

During our cloudy period due to problems outside our control, service availability went down from 98% to 82%. Mind you, the budget for the move to cloud didn't include provision for multiple independent networks links. So it was probably doomed to fail before it began

[nilfs2]

Re: Cloud? Ah, all that money wasted

Perhaps you made bad decisions and chose the shitty cloud services providers?, or had a shitty architecture?

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Define 'cloud'

As everybody seems to have their own definition*, statistics like these are meaningless.

* how about 'any bit of IT gear that can get connected directly or indirectly to the internet'?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Define 'cloud'

Defining "cloud" has been confusing to me, too. But over the past couple years, I'm starting to see it as:

1. Compute, network, or storage infrastructure that's owned and hosted by somebody other than my company.

2. I pay OpEx instead of CapEx to utilize that infrastructure.

3. I can grow or contract the infrastructure as needed to meet current business needs.

At least, this is how I explain it to the higher-ups who are just as confused as I was (am?) about what the cloud is.