Bursting the hype-bubble of cloud computing

Kevin Paschuck is Vice President for the Public Sector at Right Now Technologies and helps federal agencies move into the cloud. He was recently interviewed on ...

Kevin Paschuck is Vice President for the Public Sector at Right Now Technologies and helps federal agencies move into the cloud. He was recently interviewed on the Daily Debrief about “Effectively using cloud computing at your federal agency“. During the course of the interview, host Chris Dorobek asked about the hype, and hopes, of cloud computing.


Chris Dorobek: I think there’s a lot of… almost fear that some of this becomes almost a hype-bubble out there. And from what I can tell, most people are saying this isn’t the silver bullet. …You need to think about where you would use cloud computing resources. It’s not going to replace everything that all agencies are doing, right?

Kevin Paschuck: I would agree Chris. It’s not going to replace everything. For example, in DoD, you’re not going to replace a weapons system with cloud computing.

But what you could do… If I summarize the three benefits of cloud computing: the reduced cost, the modular implementation and this virtual CIO, under that virtual CIO umbrella, one of the benefits I see is it’s going to allow your IT department to focus on innovation, rather than traditionally implementing the software and maintaining it.

So you’re going to be able to free up resources where they would be traditionally pressed against the contact center requirements, or other requirements you could manage in the cloud like mail, you could take those and shift them over and really focus on some of the more mission-critical systems like a defense system in the military.

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