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Private cloud has a serious image problem

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About Matt Asay...

Many of you are getting worked up about this article and Matt Asay. Really, you shouldn't. Here's why:

1) Matt Asay has written the same article about a dozen times between ReadWrite, InfoWorld and The Register. THE SAME STORY. He likes getting a rise out of people. Congrats, you all took the bait.

2) Matt Asay works for Adobe as VP of Mobile. Instead of writing about lessons learned from Adobe Creative Cloud's massive public cloud failures (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/graphics_pros_left_hanging_as_adobe_creative_cloud_outage_nears_24_hours/), he writes about Private Cloud which he offers no first hand experience, just opinion.

3) Matt Asay knowingly plays fast and loose with data. For instance, the Gartner poll he cites in EVERY article he writes was actually an electronic straw poll during a presentation at a Gartner Data Center Conference. It was NEVER intended to be Gartner Research. The poll about Private Cloud had 8 possible responses. Of those, 7 responses were negative to private cloud and reflected Thomas Bittman's (Gartner analyst) bias rather than audience response. Bittman himself conceded that the poll was not scientific or an actual Gartner survey, it was simply a straw poll. Matt Asay knows this and still uses it as conclusive research.

4) Matt Asay is simply wrong. As hard as Matt Asay repeatedly tries to convince people that Private clouds are failures, IDC's research shows that both Public and Private clouds are growing nicely and at the exact same rate (this is actually research, not a straw poll): https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25576415

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