CIOs need to understand: the ability of cloud computing is limited in the present age

Remember that the first cloud computing conference of the 2009 is still exploring the implications of cloud computing, development trends and their impact on industrial and social development; a year later, in 2010, the theme of the second Congress fell on "cloud computing from ideal to practice"; The third cloud computing conference in 2011 will open your "cloud computing Application" ”...... is looking forward to next year's main melody is what, but according to these three years to undertake the situation, guess, should be the application of the road to solve problems. Some times, but also can't help thinking: cloud computing in the reality of the root germination, especially in the field of enterprise information, is really as we expect, increasing!

Beer and Skittles Cloud computing ≠ enterprise-class cloud computing

In fact, not so much, and far from it, cloud computing in the enterprise-class user market is relatively desolate! Why appears "Shave Tiaozi Ituge" situation? What is the problem of cloud computing in enterprise informatization? And for CIOs most concerned about the problem, since a good idea/methodology/philosophy, enterprise information can not apply cloud computing, how to landing?

Why is it so hot? Internet companies, and some telecoms operators and equipment suppliers, are keen on cloud computing and the loudest slogan. and internet companies, both domestic and foreign, have a feature, is that its technical framework and business model are personal, successful representative of the example is Google, Facebook and Tencent.

I call their cloud computing a beer and Skittles cloud, playing games, chatting, searching for news, and, at most, doing some duty-free bargains on Taobao. "Kingdee middleware general manager inherit said, technically speaking, these are based on unstructured, discrete information processing, basically weak process services, business logic is simple, data relevance is very small, users have very few complex organizational structure, no hierarchy and management level and reporting relationship. So the current cloud computing in the use of beer and skittles is still possible, but specific to enterprise information, these are very important issues, if not considered or not resolved, cloud computing will be difficult in the field of enterprise information technology.

What exactly does a CIO need

We all have the understanding that if something is not relevant to ourselves, or that it is not what it is, or that it does not solve my problems, I will generally not buy or use it. Just like I needed a hammer to knock a nail into the wall, and you handed me a pair of scissors.

Similarly, cloud computing, even if the heat is hot, and then fashionable, if it can not help the CIO to solve the problems encountered in the work, it is also a white tear. Since last year, there have been countless seminars on cloud computing, including how much cloud computing can helpCIOs solve problems and how to land applications, but now the CIO has become more rational and pragmatic, not to say that you say it good, I will immediately adopt, they are more to consider the actual business and matching relationship.

from the above analysis, we also learned that the beer and skittles of the cloud can not blindly copied to the Enterprise Information field, then, the CIO is really concerned about what it is, especially in the cloud can for enterprise business service level?

The job responsibilities of the CIO are mainly internal management, complex organizational levels, large data correlation, complex business process processing and business rule control. "The inheritance explains. For example, how can cloud computing, such as ERP, be used in a cloud environment? Just deal with simple business processes and discrete data processing, and can not map to the complex enterprise information corresponding to the business logic, this is the CIO think Cloud computing is the most important problem.

In addition, the enterprise information processing data are structured, are related to the application of large enterprises also face the biggest problem is a lot of system, the system is very related, but now the system is isolated, how to solve the problem of cloud computing, are required Shang content.

The current internet-based cloud computing model does not understand the core issues the CIO cares about, including Tencent, Sina, Baidu may be very clear about social networking, know what users want to play, and how to match users, but they really don't know what the business cares about and what they need. Therefore, cloud computing in the field of enterprise Informatization needs the joint efforts of all parties, instead of looking only to capture the surface prosperity of cloud computing.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)