Cloud application: Long Way to repair

As the founder of Salesforce.com and its "No Software" logo in 1999, Marc Benioff was one of the first to be used as a catalyst for cloud applications. Larry Ellison (Oracle CEO) may not give all of his clients Benioff, but you can't deny that Benioff is a visionary who insists on ownership of corporate cloud computing. His latest insight is about how Facebook fits into the future.

"I think all software will be like Facebook," Benioff said at the company's Dreamforce conference meeting last month. Everyone says they need to rewrite (their code) on a platform based on feedback. "I agree. I recently noticed that Facebook has provided a common interface to promote the growth of the use of social writing tools in the enterprise. So why aren't all the other business applications doing this?

The advantages of migrating to the cloud are now impossible to ignore. Some experts argue that forces such as Amazon.com will push all calculations into the cloud. Others have struggled to debate this idea. The reality is that both statements are correct. But the outlook is bright, and pervasive social cloud applications are still far from reality. TechTarget's latest survey found that not all users believe cloud apps can be used for them. Or at least, there is inertia that slows down the full cloud implementation.

In the Cloud pulsation survey of TechTarget in August 2012, 61% of users said they used cloud services (the total number of samples surveyed was 1500). But 80% of users who do not use the cloud do not plan to use the cloud in the last year, while another 45% never plan to use cloud IT services.

What do these numbers hide? The possible causes vary widely from the number of people involved in the survey, but there are two main factors:

There are too many existing infrastructures: companies have invested too much in their existing infrastructure, which is a huge cost and a bad business decision if replaced before the amortization is over. Unless cloud computing is added for specific business goals, as it leaders have done with the technology Advanced award-winning Paul Stamas. Stamas is the IT VP of Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., which does not immediately turn the company to cloud, but cloud applications are creating value in the near future.

There are too many partners. There are too many infrastructure services (IaaS) vendors led by Amazon.com and its EC2 services. may also be a problem. There are Microsoft and its Azure projects, but there is still no "Microsoft", and for the past more than 20 years, Microsoft has helped to identify and consolidate the company's choice of cloud computing. I think the market will also need to make it easier for business to make decisions.

Will cloud computing stay? Of course, but not for everyone, not now. But the smart IT manager will start planning for the day the cloud goes into every part of the enterprise.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)