The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

I recently came across an interesting report by the Burton Group - "The Dark Side of Cloud Computing." This report talks about the usual issues that people always talk about around cloud computing (security, vendor lock-in, etc.), but it also had an interesting list of the unintended consequences of cloud computing:

• Data loss
• Predictability of volume
• Core vs. commodity business strategy
• Organization dis-integration
• Inadequate knowledge of internal costs and business capabilities
• Unexpected expenditures
• Inadequate budget forecasting
• Unnecessary risk
• Unintended changes to operational procedures

This report is probably worth tracking down just for the discussion of those unintended consequences.