"10 to 15 years ago no one would put their credit card on the internet either – it takes time to soak in this stuff," Engates told The Reg.
He believes the misgivings that some people feel about putting their data in distant multi-tenant bit barns comes from a lifetime spent maintaining and fiddling with servers and a deep distrust of companies offering to do it for them.
"I just think it's a time thing," Engates says. "Those guys that are the older guys in IT will retire and the new guys that are the Facebook generation or the Instagram generation will become the new guys, and they will have only lived in the cloud era."
This statement somewhat glosses over the fact that many people are employed in organizations to run data centers, and a sudden keenness on cloud by the bosses can cause admins to have visions of pink slips arriving on their desks.
"To some degree there is a generational issue. However, it's also true that it's about how you believe you're valued by your org. If you feel that building something makes you more valuable, then you're less likely to want someone else to do it," Mark Thiele, executive vice president of data center tech at Switch, told The Reg via email.
But though IT workers can use their experience and knowledge to counsel their bosses against moving to the cloud, things get tricky when new hires are cloud cultists.
The rub is that young IT devs will have grown up with cloud-oriented ways of developing code and interacting with businesses, so remotely hosted as-a-service technologies will be their default way of solving many technical problems, Engates says.
Source: The Register
