Critics of the Cloud Computing model in the enterprise took more heat this week as the Feds have formally approved Google's cloud for GSA use. The suite of apps were certified to meet federal cybersecurity standards.
Although this step was inevitable, it is more indication that all the fear, uncertainty and doubt being spread by on-premise software vendors are merely self-serving as they ready their own cloud-based offerings in an attempt to fight competition from cloud trend setters Google, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com.
Soon architects will need a good reason to NOT leverage cloud-computing technologies in their solutions instead of the other way around which has been common to date.
