Gartner Group: How companies achieve cloud computing value goals

At the 2012 China IT Service Summit held on September 6, the leading agency for Information technology research and analysis introduced Gartner's view on cloud computing. As the four drivers of next-generation it research, Evan Zeng believes that cloud computing, large data, mobile computing, and social networking will enable IT departments to move from the back to the foreground and create greater value for their business development.

Gartner Group Research director Evan Zeng describes how companies can better implement cloud computing value

Cloud computing and key value definitions

In consolidating the 2012 Enterprise CIO strategy, Gartner points out that 1th is that it has a significant impact on enterprise business; 2nd is reducing it cost of investment; 3rd is building a dynamic IT architecture. These three points are the focus of the 2012 global CIO.

Evan Zeng summed up five features of cloud computing: 1th, the characteristics of cloud computing architecture-Scalability and resilience; 2nd, cloud computing technology through the Internet to pay, submit, including IT technology, URLs and other related technologies; 3rd, cloud computing technology can be measured, measured by the means used by the demand, and generate the corresponding billing; 4th, cloud computing is not hardware, or software delivery, it is based on the delivery of IT services, users do not need to consider the cloud computing services through what hardware and software generation, he only needs to focus on the use of the effect; 5th, it is a shared service, the architecture of cloud computing needs to support the service of overpayment

"In fact, cloud computing is not unfamiliar, many people currently think a machine, a server installed some virtualization software, while the character of the platform is considered to be cloud computing services, we think this is only the primary stage is not the real cloud." "The main feature of cloud computing," says Evan Zeng, is agility, the so-called agility that is delivered through a dynamic IT architecture. This dynamic is reflected in the use of IT resources by any application, the release of IT resources to a virtual pool, and the scheduling of the next application. Therefore, the ability to achieve this dynamic is the cloud computing for the enterprise to bring a very important value and characteristics.

In addition, in terms of cost and complexity, the concern with cloud computing now is that it will share some hardware or some resources in the multi-payment model generated by cloud computing, so there are security concerns. This is a concern in many industry studies, particularly in the financial sector. Our approach is to migrate many it computing services to the cloud platform, but this migration does not reduce security requirements or pose a threat to security. We will further enhance implementation and delivery in the cloud computing environment, a point where the service providers enhance the security control of cloud computing through cloud security technology and deployment.

In the evolution of the cloud-computing supply chain, the public cloud is now built on proprietary protocols, such as Amazon and more software companies, which put their software on Amazon and form a platform-based cloud computing platform. Oracle's database is on Amazon, and Microsoft software is put on Amazon to form a cloud computing platform. This cloud computing platform will generate the appropriate channel model in the next step, and there will be more cloud brokers in the middle integrated cloud service provider to provide cloud services, and ultimately through the cloud brokers and cloud services integrators to the use of end-users, is an evolutionary process.

On the private cloud front, the user first went through the mainframe era, customizing software and hardware, and now, by improving performance, many applications are migrating to private cloud platforms, while generating packaged platform services within the enterprise. Therefore, the private cloud will continue to evolve, forming an enterprise internal platform, or within the enterprise's internal infrastructure, enterprise internal software as a private cloud service delivery model.

Application and development of cloud computing in enterprises

What is the development of cloud computing and the application of enterprise computing and public cloud platform? As the cloud technology continues to optimize, more and more end users will slowly climb from the bottom of the cloud, a technology that continues to rise.

On the other hand, in the process of cloud computing, the Laas platform will have a great impact. Through the combination of innovative middleware, we can set up a multi-tenant mode of application, which will produce business model change, will play a very important role. From now on, the most mature is Laas, in this big platform is in the high speed development, the technology in unceasingly consummates the process.

Just talked about cloud computing, cloud services, Cloud technology, Paas, Laas platform. How will these technologies change in business, and how can we build the business model of cloud computing itself? How does it make use of the four powers that have just been mentioned, from backstage to the foreground? In one case, a European bank, in its study of multi-channel strategies, thought about how to use a social platform and how to build another channel using cloud computing, a case in which they used cloud computing to build another channel to develop their banking business.

The bank built a private platform cloud, and they opened some of the data in the bank to downstream suppliers. For example, investment, private finance, the distribution of financial products suppliers, in this cloud platform to develop relevant applications. At the same time, bank users download these applications to their mobile terminals, by invoking such applications to form up and down the multi-channel platform, combined with mobile computing to provide the bank's value-added services to the bank's users. At the same time, the bank was the first in Western Europe to launch such a service. After the launch they found that the download is very large, and the bank's user increase is very large, will further use the application platform, further push their own related banking services, and with some e-commerce vendors in the relevant integration, to provide business platform based on the banking business.

Evan Zeng that in the landing layer of cloud computing, users also have to consider building a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform needs several aspects: first, within the private cloud inside, scheduling management of the internal manufacturers IT resources, as a structured, virtualized online cloud. The second is that if the internal data center to run to the external Data center, the relevant security policy will be carried out through the cloud management platform. Third, the creation of public cloud services, but also to be included in the cloud management platform for related management. Here, cloud management should be the core part of deploying a private cloud, at the same time, enterprise it decision-making in the cloud deployment process, will slowly become a middleman role, contains two parts: first, internal development and private cloud services to meet business needs; second, IT department will be as a middleman to purchase public cloud services in the market , incorporating it into the private cloud services to do some integration to provide the use.

Finally, users also have to take into account the risk of control, because in the cloud landing process, but also the enterprise CIO to cloud computing learning process, there will be a migration system, the middle of the most important consideration is how to grasp the risk in the cloud era. Believe that through the changes in the operation process, cloud security technology deployment, this enterprise-class cloud can actually be mature to the landing within the enterprise, as the relevant risk management and other measures have been updated, you can better manage the cloud-based platform for enterprise IT Service applications.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)