In my years as a cloud computing consultant, I am always taken back by my client’s request to have techs with vertical-specific knowledge help with their cloud projects. Moreover, they seek vertical-specific clouds and cloud services, or clouds that are known to do well in a particular industry or sector and have services aligned with those industries.
Although this may make sense at a broad level, there are some things that should call this industry-specific approach into question as you move to the cloud. Here are two caveats that I’ve been considering lately.
