Understanding CIOs ' Choice to try cloud computing

Discussions have never stopped on the topic of "cloud computing". Now, the cloud, once thought to be "erratic", has gradually become "tentacles" ...

One of the cloud computing in the CIO's eyes

In a discussion of cloud computing launched jointly by Intel and Itvalue, Deng Shuhong, a special technical advisor to the hotel group, described his view of cloud computing as a cloud industry chain of software and hardware and network providers, cloud application developers, cloud service operators and end-users. Any link in the industry chain has a short board, will affect the spread of cloud computing and development. For CIOs, only cloud services meet the six standards of application, security, reliability, speed, robustness, flexibility, and economy, and should be considered for large-scale deployments.

The second cloud in the eyes of the CIO

In a discussion of cloud computing jointly launched by Intel and Itvalue, Chen Jinxiong, director of the Computer center of Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, expounded his views on cloud computing. Director Chen believes that cloud computing to get a real large-scale application, must have several conditions: one is to have a reliable cloud platform; the second is the business model must be standardized; the third is that it must be lower than the self built. Given the complexity of the health care business, it is difficult to adopt a public cloud computing platform (private cloud) in the core business of large hospitals, and small hospitals and regional health care can consider using a public cloud computing platform.

Reducing costs is the biggest driver of CIO's attempt at cloud computing

Intel's research through the country's largest real-name gated CIO community, Itvalue, shows that 28% of CIOs are driving the cloud to reduce environmental and equipment costs. followed by the provision of system flexibility and reliability, reduce staff costs and management difficulties, respectively accounted for 27% and 23%. Miaokai, Intel China's chief engineer, believes that efficient it resource utilization in the cloud service model can lead to significant it cost savings for the enterprise.

Why build your own private cloud

Why do companies build their own private cloud? Wenchingrong, deputy general manager of Information Department of China Aluminum Co., Ltd., there are four main reasons.

First, the government does not operate the "cloud" of the relevant laws and regulations. Group of enterprises generally have obvious competitors and important data such as the need for confidential information, if the public cloud, the data out of the problem can not be held responsible, unlike electricity, water, the government has a lot of provisions;

Second, "Cloud" operators billing standards are not uniform, flow billing varies widely. Group companies need independent dedicated lines, the cost of who to bear the lack of standards, not as electricity, water and so standardized.

Third, there is currently a group of companies to provide "cloud" service operators, the number is not much.

Four is once the change cloud service provider, data migration is a big problem (data standard, group enterprise data volume is generally very big and so on).

CIO chooses time savings from cloud computing

In a discussion of cloud computing launched jointly by Intel and Itvalue, a CIO who once deployed a cloud computing application platform within the company said that hardware, software installation and system testing could save 10% to 15% of project time compared to deploying a non-cloud platform, Through real-time online webtraining, the training time of application system can save 10%-15% training time, and the maintenance work of later system need not have special management, can save 5%-10% system Management time.

The difference between cloud computing and IT outsourcing

Cloud computing and IT outsourcing all claim to save it costs, but there is a big difference between the two, said Secretary General Ai Jun, the informatization leadership group of China's Huarong Asset management company. For example, many enterprises, the government's computing center itself does not have disaster tolerance capacity, and disaster tolerance is the standard configuration of the cloud. This shows that the cloud does not have to pay for a one-time physical environment construction costs and incremental maintenance costs, but to decompose it into annual costs, so that the enterprise is cost-effective. As far as the current outsourcing is concerned, many cases are to buy manpower, to solve only "substitute", not to improve efficiency.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)