Five top tips for the journey to cloud
November 23, 2012
Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Malcolm Herbert.
A comparison between enterprise IT and public cloud computing dramatically highlights the benefits of moving to cloud. Application deployment times can shrink from weeks in the traditional data centre to minutes in a cloud data centre; new application development time accelerates from years to weeks (or months at most); cost per virtual machine plummets from dollars to cents; server administrator ratios can explode from 20:1 to 300:1; while efficiency increases, with resource utilisation soaring from 20 to 75 percent.
With measurable benefits like these, it’s no wonder that IDC expects that by 2015 the majority of the enterprise market will require integrated hybrid cloud management capabilities (Source: IDC Cloud Management Study, 2011 Survey). Cloud computing requires new architectures at the infrastructure and application levels to benefit from all the value that it offers, such as agility and scalability of IT services. Therefore, the discussion on cloud computing provides a compelling reason to look at an open source strategy and the opportunities it brings…
Despite the tangible advantages of cloud computing, it’s difficult to predict direction and trends precisely. However, while it can be fun to go on ‘a magical mystery tour’ with no clear direction, you still need a sense of purpose. The journey will also involve assessing and potentially discarding some of your IT baggage, but it should also be about including and reusing some elements…
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