Accenture: When On-Premise Beats Cloud

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At the recent MIT CIO Symposium, Accenture’s Eric Brown made a surprising statement for a cloud expert speaking on transforming businesses to fit in cloud models.

’There are certain cost advantages that say your on-prem [model] might be your best bet, depending on your workload,’ Brown said.

Brown was addressing a question regarding security concerns around cloud, particularly the public cloud.

’Make no mistake about it, the public cloud isn’t for all workloads,’ Brown said. He elaborated that some data should always live in a privately managed data center, at least for the time being.

’Now I think over time that’s going to change, but I don’t foresee in the future that everything -- at least in the short term -- moves instantaneously to the public cloud,’ he said.

Brown said the key to knowing whether data should live in the cloud or on-prem comes from the economic model tied to the workload, and how consistent the workload is over time. He stressed the importance of understanding the consumption model of a business.

’It goes back full circle to understanding your business,’ Brown said.

PUBLISHED MAY 26, 2015