CIOs worry: The cost of cloud computing

[Guide] The Low-cost advantages claimed by cloud-computing advocates are not available at this stage at home, or can only be obtained in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18665.html "> applications where storage needs are small." Regardless of the size of the enterprise, it is necessary to consider the relative factors of total cost of ownership (TCO) and consider its own resources and needs before risking a plunge into cloud computing.

For small and medium-sized enterprises interested in cloud computing, the first question to consider is how much input, the availability, and the cost savings of using the cloud model to build an enterprise data center. The issue of security is one of the main considerations of SMEs, and the cost problem has to be confronted with a realistic problem, SMEs will consider the proportion of inputs and outputs, in the current situation, our small and medium-sized enterprises can choose to establish their own data centers, or the use of leasing cloud services to establish data centers. The low-cost advantages claimed by cloud-computing advocates are not available at this stage at home, or only in applications where storage needs are small. This should be a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the cloud model to take a wait and see attitude of an important reason.

Regardless of the size of the enterprise, it is necessary to consider the relative factors of total cost of ownership (TCO) and consider its own resources and needs before risking a plunge into cloud computing. Corporate CIOs are not going to take the cloud-computing model because of concerns about the cost advantages of cloud computing. Recently, at the 11th session of the University CIO class, from Zhejiang Tian Zheng Electric Co., Ltd. information director Li Shu-yu first as a student representative made a speech, after the author interviewed the General Lee, when I asked whether the company has to consider cloud computing plans, Lee always mentioned two points, on the one hand, as a new technology, As director of information, of course, there is more understanding of cloud computing, but also a comprehensive embrace of cloud computing, but on the other hand, the enterprise has not considered the application of cloud computing, mainly in two aspects, one is the security of cloud computing, which is the majority of SMEs will consider the problem, but also the focus of the issue, And Lee always think the most important thing is the cost of cloud computing, after all, it is not clear that the proportion of cloud computing input and output, most SMEs is a wait-and-see attitude, cloud computing is not yet in China's many small and medium-sized enterprises have been widely used. Therefore, in the coming days, the cost of deploying cloud computing remains a big problem for the Enterprise CIO.

Talking about the cost, we have to mention the CFO of the company, because all the expenses of the enterprise must be approved by the CFO, now for the Enterprise CIO and CFO have two different voices, one think the CIO for it spending more say, the CIO better understand the needs of enterprise IT planning, If you want to make it investment more valuable, CIOs should be in the CEO's perspective to negotiate with the CFO, one is that the CFO should control IT spending rights, because every year in the face of a large amount of IT spending is not effective, it will make the CFO feel that spending and investment is not directly proportional to, so the IT spending will have control, And Lee always shared his views with us, he believes that the CIO and CFO must not be antagonistic two people, they should be standing on the united Front of the two people, together for the enterprise information construction to make contributions, the differences are not terrible, terrible is the contradiction intensified, this to the company's development and individuals are unfavorable, So good communication between them is particularly important.

Cloud computing only eliminates the security and cost concerns of corporate users, in order to smooth in China's small and medium-sized enterprises landing, driving more areas of application, and within the enterprise for it expenditure control is not absolute, good communication, common efforts, will make the process of enterprise informatization more smoothly, SME information will be better tomorrow.

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