So does James Staten: Chief Strategist, Cloud + Enterprise
"And don’t even try the security or reliability card. Really? You honestly think your static VM environment hiding behind outdated firewall-based security hosted out of a 1990s era data center on servers bought in 2013 is going to trump a public cloud with clusters of next generation data centers in 19 geographic regions being protected by a team of top security professionals? And by pitting the public cloud as the enemy, you forgo any opportunity to partner with your developers around helping manage and monitor the new and often very important applications they are deploying to public cloud environments, which is where IT pros should really be concentrating your energies."