Intercloud as a ‘To Be’ Cloud architecture

July 19, 2011 Off By David
Grazed from Cloud Computing  Best Practices.  Author: Neil McEvoy.

One of the keynote topics of our forthcoming International Cloud Symposium is ‘Intercloud‘.

Like the Internet joins networks into a ‘network of networks’, so the Intercloud will do the same for computing clouds…

Maturity model transformation

Cisco, one of the event keynote speakers, provides a practical and compelling view of Intercloud.

They offer an overall Unified Computing product range, and importantly via technologies like ‘WaaS‘ can address the end-to-end requirements of enterprise IT & Cloud, ie. users in remote offices need connected to remote data-centres that operate the Clouds.

This section highlights how Intercloud is part of a four-phase maturity model, which provides a roadmap for organizations to utilize to plan their adoption strategies for Cloud computing, the ‘To Be’ target architecture of a business transformation exercise.