Cloud computing Business Services

Harvard Medical School, as its CIO Marcos Athanasoulis, said: "Like a big pharmaceutical company." "Its main task is to study. For a long time, HMS Biomedical scientists have been able to design systems for cutting-edge research, and standards in the computing environment have left the Harvard IT department in a state of weakness, as if in a sci-fi nightmare.

Athanasoulis claims that there are 1000 CIOs at Harvard and that they have to serve a wide range of users for IT systems to work properly. In any case, he has no way to qualify the system used by the HMS User. To curb the growing sophistication of technology, athanasoulis the implementation of cloud computing to the HMS High, citing "we have to continue to invest." "Athanasoulis's own experience provides a real case for how it can be a business partner and service provider."

HMS Implemented a cloud computing solution based on the user's willingness to participate. The idea is that IT departments provide storage and computing services by using billing, and separate billing for the use of the network. Users with their own devices can reduce related costs by sharing their computing resources into the cloud. Athanasoulis says this approach is appropriate for scientific research that has a high demand for resources, because there is a big gap between users ' demand for computing at the same time.

Athanasoulis said HMS's cloud system was initially small, but was growing at an order of magnitude. To get everyone involved in this scenario, Athanasoulis establishes mutual trust among users and engages them in the requirements proposal. "We have established a personal connection," he said. "The cloud system is not a black box that users can't control, and instead, Athanasoulis has adopted a gradual approach to the special concerns in the biomedical field." In the end, "people no longer design large projects, but are accustomed to doing small experiments in the cloud system." ”

Athanasoulis, chairman of Biomedical high configured Computing motivate Summit (to be held in HMS October), recently attended the Open in Boston The annual meeting of the Group (International Standards Organization in San Francisco), which released 4 white papers designed to help IT staff create cloud computing solutions for their business.

Evolving on-demand services

Mark Skilton, the global director of Gemini U.S, a consultancy, and co-author of the Open group's white paper, "Getting Roi from cloud computing", said: "Cloud computing is a step towards industrialization by providing services on demand." ”

"We think cloud computing is valuable to people, but how do we do it?" "Skilton said. The Open Group advises CIOs to quantify the value of current it and cloud services using questionnaires and scoring boards. In addition, CIOs need to make qualitative and risk analysis to "determine where to start moving to a public or private cloud." "Skilton said.

When migrating to cloud computing, you need to follow reasonable steps. Skilton's recommendations are: learn, pilot and implement – and then test on the basis of internal business processes. or according to Athanasoulis's advice: pilot, encourage participation, produce results, and gradually improve.

Skilton that the ROI model will evolve as technology matures. When building a cloud computing model, CIOs must use terms that business people can understand, such as investment, value promotion, or business performance. For example, the argument that CIOs can use to prove the benefits of cloud computing is that cloud computing will do the following for business:

◇ optimize the total portfolio

◇ deploy facilities and services in a faster and more efficient manner

◇ achieve the goal of foothold and expand in the market by the ability of infrastructure and service that can grow with business

◇ optimize direct or indirect carbon emissions

In addition to this white paper on ROI, Open group's cloud Business artifacts team published an article on cloud computing customer decision trees to help IT managers determine which parts of their enterprise are suitable for cloud computing solutions Another article contains a demand-side questionnaire to help IT managers clarify the goals of cloud computing, and a summary of the cloud business use case (use-cases), findings, and conclusions.