Cloud Computing: CIOs – How to procure Web-scale IT infrastructure expertise
October 9, 2014
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: David H. Deans.
Here’s the challenge. Your CEO won’t accept anything less than a world-class IT infrastructure that meets the expectations of his most informed Line-of-Business leaders. If you’re the CIO and you don’t want to rely upon public cloud service providers, then are you ready to deliver the caliber of IT services that they can provision? Take a moment. Consider the implications. Ponder the impact of your actions.
All the leading public cloud services providers routinely design and assemble their own data center infrastructure components, due to their extreme needs for scale and cost control. Regardless of the cloud services company, a common element among all these devices is a requirement to run an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and various other purpose-built open-source software components. Gartner, Inc. refers to this trend as the Web-scale IT phenomena…
Why you need to adopt Web-scale IT practices
What is Web-scale IT? It’s all of the things happening at large cloud services firms – such as Google, Amazon and Facebook – that enables them to achieve extreme levels of compute and storage delivery. The methodology includes industrial data centre components, web-oriented architectures, programmable management, agile processes, a collaborative organization style and a learning culture…
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