Is the information explosion about cloud computing driving adoption or making more people ask, 'Where's the catch?' Ever heard of 'suspicious knowledge'?

These days trying to learn something about technology as hyped as cloud computing is easy.  Fact is, you'll have more problems squeezing all those information references into a manageable read that won't exhaust your mental capacity or your patience.  Simply put, the information is out there.  But is knowledge alone sufficient in driving people to action (or inaction)?

Had  time on my lap to finish a brilliant book this week (thanks to an unexpected but related situation).  Although it is more about medical practice - where actual lives are hinged on exact science, fool-proof diagnostics and all, it also debunks a lot of the assumption that 'what works for most, will work on another'.  Dr. Gawande, in exquisitely warm and informative prose, helped me to understand that doctors are as much a product of blind faith as they are of their education, practice and skill as well as the technology available to them.   It is not enough that I know how things go right, equally important is to understand that things can also go wrong.

Maybe this is something we can apply when discussing the merits of public, private or hybrid cloud.  We can have all the data we want and all the evidence but ultimately, those are never enough. Much as IT prides itself on the art of calculations and exact metrics, it doesn't exist in silos as it always deals with the human component.  And most often, it is understanding that helps us cross the chasm of doubt, or in this case adoption.  

You can also read Joe Wienman's Ten Laws of Behavioral Cloudanomics as he dives into specifics which we often take for granted as quirks.