Development or extinction? The Battle of cloud Computing's two opposing factions

The most recent talk is of course cloud computing, and the small one has a very interesting finding that cloud computing has been divided into two camps: one is to firmly regard cloud computing as the second-spring admirers of it, who demand that Google App engine and Amazon EC2 do whatever they want, There can be no disagreement. The other faction sees cloud computing as an evil proxy, and finds it short-lived and soon disappears. But very few people will stand in the third camp: The objective of the cloud computing as a new infrastructure for the enterprise to improve efficiency and cost savings.

The opposite of cloud computing: killing cloud computing

The irony is that no matter where you stand in favor or opposition, doing too much is going to hurt cloud computing. First of all, small set to take a preliminary understanding of the possible cloud computing to the destruction of the four factors, namely: the excessive hype of Gmail failures, adhere to the "cloud is all" crowd, adhere to the "cloud is the evil power" of the crowd and cloud service providers.

Gmail Trouble Hype

The problem with Gmail is not the fault itself, but the fact that every time a few hours of Gmail breaks, a large number of pundits are blogging about the end of the cloud, including an interruption last month. See the 51cto.com report: "Gmail is not going to cloud computing." I want to say directly: No e-mail system will not fail, whether it is internal deployment or cloud delivery, if you want 100% of the normal operation, it is pure dreaming. Gmail's uptime is much longer than most corporate e-mail systems, and it's free, and the cost of software and hardware for corporate e-mail systems can be as high as $ tens of thousands of trillion, not to include maintenance workers ' salaries.

People who think "cloud is Everything"

These people think that all applications and data should be put into the cloud, and seize every possible opportunity to change the structure of the enterprise, regardless of the core requirements of the application and the focus of business needs. These people's brains are often "controlled by newspapers and magazines" and always pursue the trendy it technologies that are popular nowadays. Their cloud-computing deployments cannot escape the fate of failure, not because of cloud computing itself, but because of its use in the wrong place.

The people who think "cloud is the evil power"

These people believe that cloud computing does not provide any security or privacy, and they preach that all cloud computing should not be considered. Often, however, these security issues exist in the existing in-house systems of these people, and in many cases they could have used cloud computing to make their systems safer, but they were unwilling to let their IT assets go to other people's hands. Ultimately, the real problem for these people is to keep their control and power. For related reports, see 51cto.com article: "Gartner: Cloud computing is not initially safe to design", "Cloud computing" safe dirty water, the Big Three ' brew from drink '

Cloud Vendors

Cloud computing providers themselves hurt the cloud. While many SaaS and underlying architecture vendors are well versed in the underlying architecture services and network applications, they do not know how to provide them with the best practices based on the organization's specific architectural strategy. When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like nails, they don't like to provide proper training to customers, but simply to complete the deployment. Such myopia has led to the failure of many cloud projects. A good cloud provider should guide corporate customers, like an architect or teacher, to provide key guidance to ensure that their on-demand cloud service fits into the existing IT architecture.

Cloud computing supporters: Universal Cloud computing

Accordingly, I have summed up the four factors that can drive cloud computing to success: the advertising effect of cloud computing, cloud providers, the slumping economy, and the rapid cloud computing.

The advertising effect of cloud computing

The hype about cloud computing is now hot, and whether you notice it or not, it directly drives the development of cloud computing. The discussion of cloud computing is almost uninterrupted every day on television and webcast, often on the lips of most CEOs, CFOs and COO. It is clear that cloud computing has become a true business buzzword, and hardly any it concept has ever been achieved. This sense of identity has translated into real growth, and I've seen many cloud computing projects being promoted, not really out of business needs.

Cloud Vendors

What the? Isn't this the list of cloud-destroying people? That's right. However, these people are also pushing cloud computing. In fact, many of the innovative services that are behind the cloud providers really drive interest in the cloud. As I said, the concept of cloud computing is not new, but a large number of cloud computing products are exciting. For example, Amazon.com and Google continue to launch new services, not to mention the hundreds of small and medium-sized start-up companies have just flooded into the market. Now almost every week people will see one or two good cloud computing concepts emerge. So with so many innovative and practical services, will cloud computing be unsuccessful? The truth is that simple.

Economic decline

The recession has indeed driven interest in cloud computing, as they urgently need to cut costs. In many cases, it has tended to transform its architecture with cloud services after major staffing adjustments and budget losses, some purely out of necessity. However, as the economy returns to normal, innovative cloud computing is also fast growing. In short, the cost advantage of cloud computing has always been a niche for it. For related reports, see 51cto.com article: "Cloud Computing-making data center computing cost 30 times times cheaper", and "cloud computing is low cost?" Beware of being fooled. "

Fast cloud computing is easier to win

Companies have moved from the initial survey concept phase to the implementation phase, and will be able to boost interest in cloud computing if they can get results quickly. I've seen a lot of businesses identify requirements at meetings and then get the available cloud computing resources over the network in just a few days. ROI is clear, business issues are resolved, and users are very happy, and no advertising is better than actual revenue.