Is your cloud strategy delivering for your users?

Grazed from Akamai. Author: Wentao Li.

Enterprise public cloud adoption is becoming a norm around the world. Gartner expects public services cloud to hit $240 billion by 2017. They also suggest that the worldwide software as a service (SaaS) market will grow at 18.1% annually and the market will hit $46.35 billion by 2017 [1]. In addition to traditional dev-ops applications, business critical functions, such as CRM and ERP, are moving onto public cloud infrastructure. The goal is to take advantage of the on-demand scalability, flexibility and cost savings associated with cloud computing.

However, to realize the full benefits of adopting cloud computing, organizations need to look beyond access to simple compute and storage. Performance and security must also be considered when making the public Internet a critical piece of your application delivery environment…

Cloud computing platforms are typically built on "big data-centers" in a limited number of locations. As a result, the user experience tends to degrade as those accessing cloud-based applications get further away from the data-center. Even users in the same country as the data-center are often subject to unacceptable performance and availability as a result of sub-optimal routing and the chatty protocols that govern the Internet. Further, a "mobile first" way of thinking has introduced many more challenges…

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