One of the great things with making cloud software is it is really easy to develop incredible useful and scalable software. Unfortunately there is a downside to that too.
Years ago, when you wanted to start a company you had to spend a lot of money and time to get it up and running. That meant you had to be very dedicated to it, since you typically had your life savings, and in many cases your friends and family's money too.
With companies so easy to start, it's also real easy to shut them down and many cloud companies have been closed down without much effort.
That is one of the risks to cloud companies. It's important to understand how invested the management team is before you start betting your company on them.
Another challenge with "cloud vendors" is since cloud has become the hot phrase of 2012, everyone is suddenly a cloud vendor. Companies that have been selling products for years suddenly put cloud in front of it and try to pretend it is something different.
True cloud vendors are built from the ground up differently. They are built to take advantage of the benefits of multi-tenancy. They are built so scale seamlessly. They don't require new client software to be installed.
It's important to understand the architecture to be able to weed out the false cloud vendors from the real ones.
This blog will help explain how to decide which cloud vendors are good and which ones are trying to spin a tale of innovation to cover their lack of it.
Hopefully it will help you. We would love it if you help share what you learn at www.sharethecloud.com and let others learn from your experiences.
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