Cloud Computing: 7 issues of concern to Chi Enterprise CIO

January 18, 2013, the Itvalue Chi Enterprise CIO Club, in collaboration with the BMC Software company, held a "sit-see-Cloud" forum, with CIOs from 14 Chi companies, Alexander Vul, the BMC chief architect, BMC Asia general manager Steve and Chen Zhentao, manager of the technical Consulting Department of Essen Greater China, have been discussing the application and landing of cloud computing in Chinese enterprises in a pragmatic and heated manner.

The 14 companies that attended the CIO accounted for more than 1.7 trillion yuan in 2012, equivalent to about 3% of China's gross domestic product in 2012. Without exception, these enterprises have a large organizational structure, a wide range of business, business and management of the complexity is quite high, their information construction represents the Chinese enterprise information construction advanced model. In the eyes of these CIOs, what are the cloud issues they care about and focus on?

1, cloud Computing in the way of resistance to how to cross?

One of the central enterprise CIOs who have done some virtualization in the discussion said that the proportion of resources that had been dynamically invoked by the system before virtualization was not fundamentally changed, still between 5%-10%. This is actually related to the management model and management concept of the enterprise. Cloud computing is also facing the same problem. Moreover, after the enterprise information system "cloud", the whole budget management process will change, such as the budget problem is also a big drag of the cloud, how should the CIO respond?

2, after the application of cloud computing, still need to spend a lot of money each year on the software application license?

The application of cloud computing speed, the speed of mobilizing resource pool faster, but definitely not without the need to buy software application license, those who are scrambling for expensive software licenses, the CIO still needs to face the "License" problem. Can the CIO explain to the company economist or CEO who does not understand the cloud? In addition, the CIO has to face a new choice of license, to buy International IT vendors Global license good, or local license? How to use virtualization Technology or desktop cloud to reduce license costs?

3, CIO initiative to the CEO to mention Cloud computing is not trouble?

In recent years, a company has been on a large and small system of nearly 50, but the fact that the CEO only knows two systems: ERP and BPM, the former relationship between business orders, the latter relationship approval process. When it comes to cloud computing, CEOs only care about two things: 1, can cloud computing help businesses save money? 2, can cloud computing help companies make money?

A CIO from the manufacturing industry is blunt, in the large traditional enterprise information construction is often a long process, in the absence of a relatively mature technology routes, technical standards, application specifications, CIOs recommend cloud computing to CEOs, perhaps it is a matter of trouble for themselves. Another CIO, who has tried cloud computing, says China's cloud computing applications are just beginning, and some old systems are not fully supported by cloud services, such as Oracle's databases that cannot support their cloud services.

4. Is cloud computing a technological innovation or a business model innovation?

About cloud computing, there are still some differences between the CIO, some people think that cloud computing should be a technological innovation, the cloud without technological innovation is a "false cloud"; some people think that cloud is not a revolutionary technology, but the traditional technology to do something innovative, so cloud computing is a business model innovation, This pattern is based on virtualization technology and resource sharing. The two sides each hold a speech.

5, the spirit for the enterprise to reduce the cost of the "cloud" is expensive or cheap?

The CEO of many companies, when talking to the CIO about cloud computing, almost always wants cloud computing to reduce IT costs. A CIO who has tried to apply cloud computing in the enterprise says now the cloud involves a variety of devices and software is very expensive, like a "lady", looks very elegant, but the cost is very high, and its ability is not as big as the outside hype, and in the cost savings, resource utilization, Cloud computing is effective for large companies and is of little value to small companies.

6, cloud computing can let enterprise it from cost center to profit center?

A CIO at the meeting admitted that he wanted to be able to platform enterprise it to meet the internal staff production management needs, but also to meet the enterprise and supplier interaction, and customer interaction process of all the requirements, and this platform and such as the App Store, such as the use of Electronic business platform as convenient. This will allow the cloud to transform the enterprise's it from cost center to profit center.

7. Is cloud computing an opportunity or a risk?

The CIO proposed that the cloud computing needs to spend a lot of money, originally subordinate enterprises, molecular companies to decentralized it investment and construction should be concentrated to the headquarters, for the enterprise's overall information construction and CIO, is undoubtedly a big risk. And another angle, in many enterprises so far it applications are decentralized, by the business situation to allocate IT resources, but with the cloud, the enterprise will find that there are many resources can be shared, but also there can be some flexible deployment, we began to have a sense of initiative, put some idle resources together, To make the most of IT investments. From this point of view, the cloud will promote corporate awareness of change.

IT pros look at cloud computing:

Alexander Vul BMC chief architect:

In the enterprise, the IT department attaches importance to the process, but the business unit attaches importance to the customer's needs, hope the system is more flexible, lower cost. The advent of cloud computing enables IT departments to meet the needs of their business units with existing IT processes and it practices. The lifecycle management of cloud computing requires 6 core functions: Full service configuration, good infrastructure, intelligent deployment, modular service design, unified cloud management, and analysis-driven visualization management.

Steve BMC Asia general Manager

Cloud Management is just a tool, the most important thing is to support the business can be launched quickly. In the past few years, it technology has a fundamental impact on people's Way of life, which leads to people's expectation of enterprise it has changed, users expect to be able to access the enterprise's IT applications anytime, anywhere, in a variety of ways, using a variety of terminals, people want it to be more flexible and personalized, this "self-service" Changes have led to subtle changes in the relationship between the IT department and the business unit.

Chen Zhentao Essen Greater China Technical Advisory department Manager:

The adoption of a cloud strategy would change the entire IT model, and it might have been focused on it in the past, with a cloud strategy that would extend the system to the entire business area, the value of the cloud and the system would be greater, and the adoption of cloud strategies would have an impact on the existing IT environment.

Technology director, Greater China, company BMC Software

A financial customer built a trans-center cloud delivery platform based on the BMC product the biggest feature of this platform is the technical strategy, can be predefined for a variety of resources, in order to service the blueprint of different resources to assemble a new service, so the service in the delivery mode more flexible. The remote management of physical machines has been very convenient.