Cloud storage: Is that a big bluff?

With the application of cloud storage in depth, for enterprises, cloud storage has become one of the essential technologies, of course, mentioned cloud storage, we have to mention the public cloud platform, since 2010, the building of public cloud platform for the IT project began to increase the trend, and on the contrary, New projects that apply to enterprise local IT systems are significantly reduced.

By the end of 2016, Gartner predicts, more money will be spent on cloud computing applications and cloud services projects. In the foreseeable future, the "public cloud" application will become the mainstream cloud application, and we will gradually farewell to the fog to see the "cloud."

For this emerging technology, the new business in the enterprise and the new department is the ideal practitioner. Moreover, the new business attempt itself has a certain risk. As a result, enterprise IT managers are often unwilling to consume too much capital for their own equipment in the early stages of a project.

From the perspective of enterprise risk management, especially in the early stage of the project risk management, on-demand IT hardware and other resources are very reasonable, even if the final lease total cost is higher than the cost of purchasing its own IT equipment. After all, few businesses can buy the entire building as their office space at the start-up stage.

In a housing rental market, a person who spends his life renting a lease will spend more than his mortgage. For those who buy a house, he has paid off his loan and has a house of his own when he retires. A lifetime tenant would have to spend most of his retirement income to have a room to live in.

Public cloud storage This form of it leasing and housing leasing also have a similar common problem. So, "you just need to pay a certain amount of money," this sound of the propaganda language is not true?

According to the theory of cloud storage, if the enterprise chooses to purchase its own IT equipment, then when the enterprise application demand is not high, the enterprise can choose to close some resources. And when the business needs to upgrade or need to expand, the enterprise will be to ensure that the project can be successfully completed, and inevitably buy more than the actual needs of the enterprise infrastructure, so that it into the "overqualified" of the circle.

Conversely, if the enterprise chooses public cloud storage, the enterprise can expand IT resources as needed. When business needs are reduced, users can easily shut down some IT resources, and everything is "simple and beautiful".

However, everything has its two sides. Public cloud storage ostensibly requires an enterprise to pay for the IT resources it needs to use, but it has hidden costs in terms of integration. Moreover, the public cloud may also cost it executives more than it can, but it departments that are accustomed to hosting the system internally may not be aware of these costs at first.

In fact, there are many costs to an enterprise's internal hosting system, but not all costs are from the IT budget, such as electricity and rent. However, if the cloud services are used, these basic infrastructure costs will be included in the total cost, so the enterprise will have to pay for the public cloud before it is paid and does not calculate some of the costs in the IT budget.