There is a shift in the dynamic of in house vs external provided solutions means large corporations are going to struggle to keep up unless large changes are made.
Previously many large corps would provide their own tins to host apps, file stores and the like. The problem is, there are now big companies who can do it at MUCH larger scale than most corps can cope with.
An example might be amazon or t-systems. Both of which can spin up an environment, deploy code, execute the computation using the required scale of hardware, shut it all down and do it all for next to nothing in cost.
In house would involve contract negotiation, licenses, physical storage of the kit, not to mention the lead time in doing it all. Very slow.
I’m not by any means claiming that the cloud is the silver bullet. I believe that the cloud is a field day for the hackers. Once they manage to get through the garden wall of the cloud service provider they will likely have access to a Pandora’s box of information. In my personal view its not an “if “they break in, its a “when”.
That said, it would be a cost reward analysis. If you can encrypt the data stored on the cloud before transacting, and have a slim server estate for presentation in the companies estate, it might work out best for all.
The problem is the current corps have a myriad of contracts, hosting providers, etc, all of which were baked in for many years. Unless they can be nimble and clever, things aren’t going to change any time soon… Which is a shame, as this is a very exciting time.