(Object Management Group: Boston) -- International technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) Cloud Working Group has published a discussion paper, Cloud Myths and Realities. The working group wrote the paper to help cloud customers evaluate, select, implement, and govern cloud solutions deliberately and safely. A companion piece to OMG’s Practical Guide to Cloud Computing, the Cloud Myths and Realities paper will help cloud customers see through the misinformation in the cloud domain.

“Since the cloud computing model became a mainstream phenomenon about 15 years ago, users have submitted to a barrage of confusing claims, counterclaims, and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt),” says Claude Baudoin, owner, and principal at cébé IT and Knowledge Management, and co-chair of the OMG Cloud Working Group. “This paper analyzes and debunks cloud myths.”

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