Cloud computing "fooled" the CEO CIO how to reverse the tide?

[Guide] The heads of corporate boards, CEOs, and even business units are putting up various questions around cloud computing: what kind of cloud computing do we do? What cloud strategies do we use?

Corporate boards, CEOs, and even business leaders all raise various questions about cloud computing: what kind of cloud computing do we do? What cloud strategies do we use?

How will CIOs respond to the high level of doubt? The following views on cloud computing can be used as a reference.

1. "Cloud computing" is largely discredited

The company may think that the world is at the forefront of cloud computing, only to be left behind. But the combination of the following figures shows that most so-called "cloud computing" is not really cloud computing. A survey of 1021 developers by Dr. Dobbs Magazine and Forrester found that only about 4% of the companies currently deployed application cloud computing. An Information weekly Outlook 2010 survey shows that 10% of companies are doing what is called "cloud computing" (i.e., CPU online, storage, but not SaaS), while another 5% say they will definitely be involved in the cloud in the future. This data gives us a clear picture of the reality that cloud computing is the essence of getting services from third-party vendors and simply paying for the services they use and not being widely accepted for the time being.

But that does not mean that we should leave it behind because it would be a very serious mistake. Paying too much attention to cloud computing is not because we CIOs foolishly swallowed the hype of the media, but the potentially immeasurable benefits behind the rapid development of cloud computing technology. A year ago, only 31% of Newsweek's readers were positive about the development of cloud computing, investing in, planning cloud computing, or taking into account the economic downturn, only "it is possible" to use it. But this year, that number has risen to 46%. 15% means cloud computing has taken a big step in the year. Even though most users are only interested in cloud computing today, their momentum has given the public full confidence.

2. Research is more important than deployment

In the 2002, because of the pursuit of cost savings, we hastily developed a vital overseas E-commerce project, and the result shows that it is very wrong to focus on immediate interests only. As the project is not mature enough, the project is completely unable to meet our needs. This painful lesson has taught us how to understand risk and effectively manage the experience of overseas assets, and to learn more about the nature of cloud computing.

At this year's Information weekly 500 conference, I heard an interesting analogy: the outsourcing of infrastructure is like renting a house, and cloud computing is a hotel room. You don't have to pay attention to other companies--whether they're co-operative or irrelevant--you just hire what you need. We need to understand and accept the risks and the nature of this new form of outsourcing.

3, we continue to explore the research

We're not sitting there waiting for someone else to perfect the cloud. Project pilot projects, some discrete work, intensive computing to the cloud provider to do, to the IT team to provide learning experience, we hope that this series of work can help business leaders to make better decisions. We've been studying these cloud providers, such as Amazon's Web services and Microsoft's recently launched Azure Service, to try to tap into the potential of their cloud computing services. We also discuss with many vendors the case process they encounter about cloud computing variables. For example, the American Lilly Company uses Amazon's EC2 service for scientific collaboration and computing.

At the same time, we also use the concept of cloud structure, in the data center to build a demand and shared data resource platform. While this effort saves costs in the short term, we hope that a composite cloud computing platform, such as Amazon, can simplify work and improve efficiency, and that using some basic work can produce the results of a lot of previous tedious work.

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