Across cloud computing deployment barriers Microsoft Transfer Data Center

According to a recent study, most IT executives are interested in cloud computing, but still need to convince the business decision makers of their colleagues that the technology is worth it.

According to the findings, 28% of IT executives plan to deploy a private computing cloud by the end of 2009.

The most cited (41%) advantage of private cloud computing is that it can significantly improve efficiency. Other advantages mentioned include: Resource Scalability (18%), cost cutting (17%), experimentation with cloud computing (15%), and enhanced It Response (9%).

The survey, conducted by grid and cloud service provider platform computing, shows a huge hurdle in cloud computing: 76% of IT executives believe that business decision makers still don't understand the potential value of private clouds.

Platform Computing, chief marketing officer Randy Clark, said: "It executives are clearly aware of the benefits of the efficiency and cost savings that private cloud can bring." However, as our survey shows, senior business feels that this has not been seen. If an enterprise wants to benefit from a private cloud, its functions will evolve into a business service partner for the business unit. "

In the survey, 37% it respondents who wanted to deploy cloud computing applications immediately referred to the corporate culture barrier. Other factors that hinder rapid deployment include management complexity (26%), Security (21%), front-end Cost (8%), and application software license (8%).

67% of it respondents said they planned to run cloud emulation and modeling applications, and said their primary application choice would be Web services and Business Analytics.

Microsoft is preparing to move the Windows Azure Data Center in Washington State, which is used to build a cloud computing platform, because it is likely to raise taxes on the construction of large data centers – a former head of the company began warning Microsoft and other cloud-computing giants Large data centers are bound to be hit.

Earlier this week, Microsoft said it wanted to move the cloud platform for Windows Azure, "USA Northwest", away from the north-west of the United States. Given the local tax policy, Microsoft said that all applications were transferred to the southwestern United States, in San Antonio, Texas, before the Azure Cloud Platform was officially released in November. This datacenter is currently in the state of the technology Preview.

But Microsoft has told reporters that they will continue to operate Quincy's online service, which is located in Washington's data center. Although Microsoft is not sure how many customers the Windows Azure will get after the launch, they will not be building new data centers in Washington for 7.9 of the revenue.

When Microsoft first started building a data center in Quincy, they enjoyed the tax cuts from a manufacturer's point of view, but in December 2007 the policy was broken because "builders will not produce products that are not products sold to companies", and then Microsoft began to reduce local construction (Yahoo is the same), After that, Microsoft's data center construction is getting far away from its home base.

Pretend you have your own cloud and the infrastructure to implement the cloud, and you spend a lot of time developing your website and employees to find the best place to store the data center. Everything is fine, 5 years later you find yourself having a healthy server facility and you've found a lucrative service model. But when the location of the data center changed the rules of the game. They passed a law in which the server became a taxable entity, which was disastrous for your business model.

The cloud we've been talking about can make applications easy to move, but now it seems that the infrastructure itself must be just fluid.

Google appears to be currently trying to implement a software layer that automatically calculates the load on the data center in order to temporarily avoid hardware failures.

But the hardest thing is that Google has built nearly 40 data centers around the world. "Governments are trying to regulate what they do not know, with their blunt and inaccurate rules of instruments (regulations and taxes)," he said, "because of the speed with which technology has grown so fast that we cannot measure the overall impression." ”