Cloud is all about Workload
January 7, 2015
Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
Forget Location, Location, Location: Cloud Is All About Workload, Workload, Workload. What do we know so far about cloud computing? Well, first the hype-cycle slowed down and we started realizing that hybrid cloud (as a combination of public and private resources) was a relatively sensible idea, i.e., from both an expenditure (public) and security (private) perspective.
Now we know which data and processing tasks to put where – and when, right? Not exactly, it’s still not all quite crystal clear in cloud is it? The nomenclature, taxonomy and classification of the cloud are all part of the problem. At the risk of introducing a new term, it may be useful to talk about the workload cloud…
Workload, workload, workload
Forget location, location, location: cloud is all about workload, workload, workload say René Aerdts, chief technologist, workload and cloud, HP Enterprise Services and Jeff Moyer, senior director of cloud services at HP Enterprise Services. While firms spend hours, days and more struggling to pin down a cloud strategy thinking about public, private, hybrid – if they were to (from very first principles) consider workload factors as the defining consideration for any cloud purchases, then we might all be a rather more productive and efficient place in terms of our approach to cloud…
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