Lydia Leong

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At Gartner, we generally do not do hands-on testing of products, with the exception of some folks who cover consumer devices and the like. Yet, the self-service nature of cloud computing makes it trivially cheap to do testing of these services, and without needing to involve the vendor.

I know that in superficially dinking around with these clouds, I’m only lightly skimming the surface of what it’s like to deploy in the environments. But this is a market that is full of incredible hype, and going through the mental exercise of “how would I use this in production” helps me to advise my clients on what is and isn’t ready for prime-time. I think that an analyst needs to be vigilant about not feeding at the hype-trough. Keeping in touch by being at least a little hands-on helps to innoculate against that.

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