Analysis of the market demand of cloud computing

Introduction: According to ESG Survey, in the cloud-popular environment, server virtualization still has a lot of development opportunities, 21% of the respondents 2009 years of server virtualization investment more than 2008; 27% of the respondents said they were flat in 2008.

Tony Prigmore, one of the founders and senior analyst at ESG (Enterprise strategy Group), has expressed his views on the current hottest topic-cloud computing and its possible role in the development of servers, storage virtualization, and so on. Based on the analysis of the ESG Research report, Tony Prigmore analyzed the purchasing intention of the enterprises in the context of the economic crisis and the concern of cloud computing, and analyzed the market demand.

Market recognition of cloud computing

Tony Prigmore analyzes the benefits of cloud computing and the market's recognition of cloud computing from a variety of perspectives.

First of all, cloud computing can improve the efficiency of IT resources, reduce the power consumption of data centers, and make full use of redundant computing resources to avoid the continuous consumption of energy in idle state. According to Info-tech research group, most servers operate with only 10%-20% system capacity, compared to the cloud computing platform can concentrate resources, timely upward or downward expansion, save considerable energy and operating costs.

Second, from the economic point of view, the service provider can through the technical facilities of multiple vendors to obtain the expansion of the economy, and is a predictable, cyclical revenue stream. For the user, the storage can be converted to operating expenses, only to pay for the capacity used, but also to transfer power, cooling and footprint to the cloud service provider, while the capacity and performance on demand expands the customer's business agility.

The economic and technological driving force of cloud computing

For the economic drivers of cloud computing, Tony Prigmore said: "In the context of economic globalization, enterprises to innovate business models, accelerate the popularization of new ideas and other needs, are conducive to promoting the development of cloud computing, so that the various areas of it to create similar simplification benefits." Some cloud computing platforms can be hosted externally or purchased by service, which is especially handy for small businesses with fewer IT personnel. But for companies with security and privacy concerns, they tend to build cloud computing platforms internally. ”

In addition to the economic drive, Tony Prigmore A detailed introduction to the technology drivers of cloud computing. Tony Prigmore believes that service-oriented, virtualization technology, network technology, and the advent of data-centralized applications are all technical drivers of cloud computing. Among them, the emergence of data centralized application, such as Web 2.0 interactive and real-time communication technology, provide a great help for cloud computing, enable it to use the enterprise existing architecture, in a few minutes, processing huge information, to meet the implementation of Internet applications, the high demand for computational efficiency.

The business model of cloud computing

Tony Prigmore thinks cloud computing's business model includes two main aspects, namely "cloud" Manufacturer and "cloud" service manufacturer. Among them, "cloud" vendors are mainly selling products and technologies that can efficiently build "cloud" and provide "cloud" services, such as Huawei, VMware, EMC, Cisco, NetApp, etc. and "cloud" service manufacturers are mainly through the Internet to provide applications/platform/infrastructure services vendors, such as Amazon S3, Google, Iron kings and so on.

The impact of cloud computing on virtualization

"According to the ESG survey, there is still a lot of opportunity for server virtualization in the context of cloud computing," says Tony Prigmore. "21% of the respondents were spending more than 2008 on server virtualization for 2009, and 27% per cent of respondents said they were flat in 2008. ESG's research also fully demonstrates the importance of server virtualization for all types of it enterprises. 50% of the respondents were already using server virtualization in the production environment, while 18% said they were using server virtualization, but only in a test environment, and 18% had no server virtualization deployed, but there were deployment plans. ”

The impact of cloud computing on storage

In times of economic uncertainty, the industry's focus on areas and measures for storage will revolve around efficient and cost-cutting, and security and backup remain the primary storage challenges. In the dynamic demand of the market, there is also an urgent need for third parties to provide professional data protection services, such as backup and recovery, disaster tolerance and so on.

"The ESG survey points out that 31% of respondents surveyed said the biggest challenge was how to secure confidential data, and 31% said the need to improve backup and recovery processes was a top priority for businesses." "Tony Prigmore in a detailed analysis of the primary storage challenges faced by the enterprise," and in the context of rapidly rising cloud computing, companies are changing key storage standards, according to ESG reports, 41% The company surveyed said that the key storage standard for the enterprise is service and support. ”

"Cloud computing is not going to change much of the computing that is already in place," Tony Prigmore said. " Cloud computing can provide users with the most reliable and secure data storage center, and the user side of the device requirements low, easy to use, to achieve data sharing. In addition, server virtualization, network virtualization, and storage virtualization will also be driven by the cloud to market-friendly. ”

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(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)