According to InfoWorld, Gartner’s Darryl Plummer this week told his company’s clients that “enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.” The public/private debate continues to rage (if you know where to look), but the majority of IT managers in large enterprises are still inclined to do the exact opposite. They would typically consider private cloud first, and only realistically propose using public cloud resources for non-critical activities such as hosting development servers. If Plummer said what InfoWorld suggests, I wonder how his audience responded?