Cloud Computing: Here Comes the Enterprise
September 14, 2013
Grazed from ToadWorld. Author: gilallouche.
“Cloud Computing” has come a long way since the days when that enigmatic buzzword for Web Applications had everyone scratching their heads. In fact, new data from Verizon’s recently released 2013 State of the Enterprise Cloud Report suggests that the cloud—once regarded as a virtual sandbox to play in—is gaining respect and popularity as a serious production tool within the enterprise. Although the report predictably sheds positive light on Verizon Terremark, the company’s own enterprise cloud solution, it did yield some interesting statistics.
Between January 2012 and June 2013, the use of cloud based memory and cloud based storage increased by 100 percent and 90 percent respectively
Those are pretty big increases and Verizon chalks them up to the shift of business-critical applications to the cloud. Still, that’s a lot of shifting going on and it makes you wonder how Verizon arrived at those figures. But the next figure helps to put things in perspective…
The number of VMs deployed during the same time period only increased by 35 percent
Now we’re making sense. Higher rates of cloud memory and storage usage versus a relatively small increase in the number of virtual machines (VMs) mean that cloud computing is getting more efficient. It means that enterprises are getting more memory and storage capacity out of each VM. It also means that IT departments are finally starting to get serious with cloud computing, taking it from something to experiment with to something that can be used to drive production. Instead of piling on more VMs to handle increasing needs for more storage and memory, they’re finding ways to get more out of the virtual machines they already have. And lest we forget the bottom line, they are also saving the enterprise a lot of money that would otherwise be wasted on underutilized VMs…
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