Microsoft, Oracle and Ovum urge IT teams to drive cloud success

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Roland Moore-Colyer.

Improved governance and training will be core to the future of cloud adoption, helping overcome security and inefficiency problems inherent in many cloud migrations, according to a panel of cloud experts. At a Westminster eForum event cloud specialists from Microsoft, Oracle and Symantec joined an Ovum analyst, and several lawyers and academics to discuss the next steps for cloud computing.

The participants explored key cloud issues such as security, compliance and the efficiency of cloud computing. The panel presented a consensus of opinion that would-be cloud adopters need to work out the best way to migrate their IT infrastructure to the cloud and establish a level of governance over data security rather than wholly rely on cloud providers…

Gary Barnett, chief software analyst at Ovum, said effectively adopting a secure and efficient IT infrastructure involves "eating your greens", whereby IT teams must put in the hard work to ensure that cloud migration removes redundant IT infrastructure rather than adding to it. "Cloud appears in our infrastructure but none of the existing infrastructure disappears. Now when you add cloud to your existing infrastructure, you’re not reducing complexity, you’re adding to the overall complexity," he explained…

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