Cloud Computing: Managing Application Service Delivery in the Hybrid Datacenter

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Vic Nyman.

Enterprise computing now occupies a new space called the “Hybrid Datacenter.” As organizations work to achieve the promises of cloud computing while retaining the benefits of on-premises deployments, they are increasingly operating in a new, highly heterogeneous environment that creates new challenges, including application service delivery. Application service delivery in the Hybrid Datacenter is one of the biggest challenges that IT Operations teams will need to meet for their organizations to be successful.

I like to start with a basic premise: IT organizations exist to deliver application services. Every business and organization is now highly dependent on applications. Whether it’s consumer applications for banking, scheduling, buying airline tickets, or coordinating youth sports team schedules, or business applications for HR, ordering, or production management; organizations of all sizes today rely on applications to function…

IT teams exist to make these applications work. Any change to the infrastructure used to deliver applications services – in this case the movement from on-premises to Cloud based computing – should be seen as an attempt to deliver application services with higher reliability, better performance, and lower cost…

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