Enterprise CIO: A dialectical view of cloud computing game rules have changed

As cloud computing slowly shifts from concept to product, companies deploy cloud computing to begin to put on the agenda. According to the survey, in the Asia-Pacific region, about two-thirds of enterprises plan to increase the cloud computing budget for 2012 years. Of course, rational decision-making stems from a dialectic view of the pros and cons of things, as well as cloud computing.

The advantages of cloud computing

1. Fast Start and build application

The biggest benefit of cloud computing is the ability to quickly build our business applications, for example, we now want to develop a Web site, we do not have to spend huge sums of money to buy hardware cluster, no longer need to build software, just put all the need to build in the cloud, convenient and quick to save money, which is absolutely a good choice for the enterprise.

Brad Animoto, chief executive of New York's company. Jefferson once said: "Cloud computing is really easy for startups, because it helps you use very little money to put business plans into practice very quickly; cloud computing changes the rules of the game between companies, making it possible for entrepreneurs to expand their businesses around the world at the start of their business. ”

2, Low-cost investment flexibility

Because the scale of the cloud can be dynamically scalable, easy to expand and easy to handle, so the enterprise can not increase hardware investment to meet the application and the size of the user growth (reduce costs), and not because of project interruption and frustrated (less loss). For large enterprises, the ship will be good to turn; for small and medium enterprises, the operation cost of the project has been reduced sharply and the competition for large enterprises is expected to be available.

Tomnolle, chief executive of Cimi, a High-tech consultancy, said: "To gauge whether a company has a good cloud service Outlook, you first need to consider the diversity of your IT Infrastructure resource utilization." If you are constantly experiencing a lot of spikes and troughs, you may be forced to allocate more IT resources to peak periods, while cloud services will make you less likely to invest in large applications. ”

3, product development cycle compression

Regardless of which manufacturer you use the cloud computing products, your product development cycle will be greatly compressed, ideas can be changed at any time, the development of products can be updated at any time. This reduces the cost for the enterprise, but the product can still keep improving.

"Since Eli Lilly&co, the company moved some apps and data to the Amazon cloud last April, Eli Lilly&co," said Dave Powers, Indianapolis's assistant information consultant. The configuration time will drop from weeks to minutes. There is great value in it. Cloud computing has really begun to affect the way we do business. We started to reduce the cycle of research, which is very important to us. ”

The disadvantage of cloud computing

1, the data security does not give the force

From the data security aspect, the current relatively hot cloud computing manufacturer Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and so on seems to have not completely solved this problem, this is in the enterprise propaganda can glimpse (still no enterprise dare to blunt cloud security demand). Many enterprise users, even if they try to use cloud computing, mostly through internal regulation to control the data, but will not have competitive advantage, containing sensitive information on the public cloud platform, which is the most companies hype cloud concept wool one of the reasons.

2, large enterprises do not need

Many large developing enterprises have already spent a lot of money buying hardware, building their own server clusters, and buying the necessary system software and application software before cloud computing, and the Foundation platform architecture has been built. In recent years, there is no need for such enterprises to move their applications to the cloud, the enterprise porting IT business cloud platform is also selective.

Cimi's Nolle said: "The more resources you migrate, the greater your IT resource pool; the larger your IT resource pool, the smaller the cost advantage of outsourcing resources to the cloud." Cloud computing can increase the utilization of resources, but only the benefits achieved from a relatively small consumption of resources are maximized. ”

3. Not enough corporate autonomy

Enterprise autonomy has always been a controversial topic. Perhaps out of careful consideration, perhaps the mentality is not open enough for their own company's application, we all want to be fully supervised and controlled. In the original IT architecture, each level of application can be customized, supervision, management, control, arbitrary; on the cloud platform, although the enterprise does not need to worry about it operation and maintenance of security, stability, but the enterprise still seems not easy, with the fear from the cloud products are not controlled. When the familiar things suddenly become a black box, worry, really understandable.

4, cloud computing products immature

A large number of cloud computing manufacturers in 2011 to fry Cloud concept, try to landing or playing the edge of cloud products, but the lack of unified platform and standard constraints of the cloud manufacturers are mostly fragmented, market supply and demand contradictions outstanding, dare to try the enterprise procurement due to product incompatibility and distress, The calm and watching enterprises know that the trend is irreversible, persistent old school still wondering how to improve the enterprise IT architecture to resist the impact of cloud computing.

However, the market is always in the development of supply and demand, for example, some companies think the public cloud is not safe, manufacturers began to push private cloud; When the company's original application is difficult to integrate into the cloud, manufacturers immediately launched a hybrid cloud and so on. Fundamentally, the successful use of cloud computing and the promotion of products are still scarce, but we experience it, only because it is bound to become the future trend, such a mentality, cloud computing, even if not perfect, what harm?

Conclusion：

Like many emerging technologies, cloud computing subtly alters our lives, and you reject it, repel it, and stop it from moving forward. But believe it: cloud computing is never going to work for all users, and cloud computing is not a panacea for all the problems ... In a world where change is the only constant, when cloud surges, the rules of the game change quietly, Enterprise CIOs, are you ready?

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)