In-depth Q & A: Cloud computing will have an impact on CIO?

Called the third revolution in the IT industry cloud computing, has now gradually developed from the hot concept into a practical application. During August-November 2011, the ITValue community, in partnership with Intel Corporation, conducted in-depth discussions with hundreds of CIOs who are concerned about and practiced cloud computing. The topics covered the business value, security, openness, and efficiency of cloud computing Sex, simplicity and other aspects. Xiao Bian today from the ITValue community fierce discussion of the selected articles ten questions and answers, to facilitate an in-depth understanding of cloud computing.

1.CIO choose to try cloud computing power is what?

Reduce costs is the CIO try cloud computing's biggest motivation. 28% of CIOs said they are trying their best to power cloud computing in order to reduce environmental and equipment costs. Followed by is to provide system flexibility and reliability, reduce staff costs and management difficulties, respectively, accounting for 27% and 23%. Miao Kaixiang, chief engineer of Intel China, believes that the efficient use of IT resources in the cloud service model may bring huge IT cost savings for the enterprise.

2.CIO cloud computing what are the concerns?

For public clouds, CIOs' concerns are mostly about security and privacy, as well as integration issues with other information systems in the enterprise. If the public cloud service providers can not come up with effective solutions in these areas to persuade CIOs, CIOs will find it hard to be sufficiently interested in the public cloud. In addition, public cloud is more economical than self-built private cloud, and many CIOs are also skeptical.

In contrast to public clouds, the security of private clouds is viewed by many CIOs as an advantage. Many enterprises began to use cloud services + thin terminal deployment methods to improve the coordination and design, development and other fields of security and convenience. CIOs see private clouds as more conducive to corporate protection and sharing of core digital assets. CIOs' concerns about private clouds are more focused on technology and standards concerns. Some CIOs are concerned that the existing private cloud implementation technology is a transitional technology. In the future, once a newer technology emerges, the private cloud built by itself will face the pressure of technology upgrading. Moreover, the current cloud computing-related standards are still blank. The self-built private cloud will face the pressure of upgrading and upgrading once it is not compatible with industry standards in the future.

3. What is the cost of deploying a private cloud?

Look at both long-term and short-term. Costs are likely to increase in the short term, but in the long run, they are bound to decrease, not just in procurement costs but also in operating costs. However, there are uncertainties in the rate of technology innovation and the replacement cost of the life cycle needs to be considered. If the cloud application reaches a certain size in the near future, it must be cost-effective. If sufficient requirements are met, the cost of hardware can be reduced by at least half and the installation and maintenance workload can be reduced to less than 1/4, and the overall stability can be improved at least 1 order of magnitude, power consumption savings of more than 50%, occupying space down to less than 1/4, the server required network interface to less than 1/4.

4. How to judge whether a system is necessary to migrate to the cloud platform?

When deciding whether an enterprise-level application migrates to the cloud, several factors are evaluated and weighed: (1) How much business value will adding to moving the application into the cloud? (2) Technically feasible? (3) what are the risks to bear, how much risk? If accepted after weighing the pros and cons, the results of the previous assessments are also validated through a small-scale simulation (or pilot project) prior to formal implementation. Do not tell the truth about how an application or system can be migrated to a cloud platform. Even the same or similar applications and systems can have different conclusions in different enterprise environments or in different cloud implementation phases.

5 traditional IT platform to the cloud platform in the process of migration, which will encounter any trouble?

Not all applications are suitable for migrating from traditional platforms to cloud platforms. Such as the need to consider how the existing relational database migration, is not worth the migration. There are many applications are not suitable for running in a virtual environment, such as some of the mission-critical, high resource utilization of the business, or the requirements of specific physical hardware binding.

6.IT staff need to master what new skills to deal with the adjustment after the enterprise cloud?

IT staff to understand what is the abstract "service", all the end and the cloud should be connected in the form of services, each data exchange should be a service process. Internal IT staff need to upgrade their business knowledge, because "service" has long been out of the scope of hardware and software. Application is benevolent, only understand the hardware architecture, bought the server, storage and network can do IT era has passed.

7. Which companies are more suitable for using cloud computing?

Roughly the following three categories: (1) There are no special requirements for the infrastructure technology and facilities, which are common infrastructure requirements for IT. At the same time, these users want to be able to adjust computing resources, network and other IT resources based on business resilience. (2) has a large capacity data storage needs, while requiring relatively low security users. (3) Some special industries, itself, need some public data. Such users are more likely to consider cloud computing, but also relatively easy to find the right cloud provider.

8. How to evaluate the service quality of cloud service providers?

The assessment of cloud service providers and evaluation criteria, and traditional service providers are not much different, evaluation indicators, the system should be equal. Security, openness and standardization, quality of service and price are the three top criteria CIOs evaluate for cloud service providers. In addition, the cloud service provider's service delivery standards are also important. Salesforce's seven delivery standards are also worth reviewing: world-class security, trust and transparency, true multi-tenancy, reliable scale, high performance, complete disaster recovery, and high availability.

9. Will Cloud Computing Change the Information Asymmetry in Commercial Transactions?

There is always a situation of information asymmetry between buyers and sellers. If there is symmetry, that is, price information is completely transparent (in fact, there are many factors such as price fluctuations caused by production volume, inventory, transportation, consumption, etc.), there is no market and some Just the transfer of goods, money transfer, the profits of all links disappear, and this is the model of a planned economy. Facts have proved that there is no vitality.

Looking back at the role of the cloud, from the existing information, the cloud has an absolute advantage and can achieve more efficient handling and announcement. However, asymmetric information is an intrinsic characteristic of the market economy and not eliminated by technology. And by technical means, it may expand the asymmetry of information for profit. So the conclusion is that the cloud can make the information more freely dealt with, but it is impossible for the parties using the information to obtain symmetrical information, which is the essence of all business activities.

10 cloud computing will get rid of CIO's life?

While the workload of traditional IT departments is continuously streamlining in the cloud computing model, this does not weaken the scale and importance of IT departments. Cloud computing is just a very important tool to help CIOs and IT departments try their best to meet the IT needs of their enterprise. Formally, cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the way application software is developed, maintained, supported and updated by user organizations; from the point of view of performance, application software providers are becoming more specialized and products are richer in driving computer transaction processing applications More diversity and effectiveness. This process does not happen in one go, and CIOs are the most active participants, facilitators and leaders. What's more, cloud computing is only the socialized solution that solves the problem of transaction processing capabilities, and will not be the ultimate model for the development of social informatization applications.