Next Generation Cloud computing: Service-centric business-driven

Now we are at an important inflection point in the development of cloud computing. As you know, the IT industry has undergone significant changes since the advent of cloud computing and has had dire consequences – cloud computing may eventually replace it. If it architecture is eliminated, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the entire technology supply chain. What kind of choices should they make for companies? Typically, cloud computing is separated as technology and evaluated from the perspective of delivery-a new technology that delivers faster and better solutions for us at lower cost. But if you look at cloud computing in isolation from one perspective, it's easy to overlook another equally important question, what is cloud services and how are they consumed?

In fact, with the advent of new requirements and the evolution of technology, cloud computing ultimately leads to a new business model that will in turn drive it to reinvent itself to maintain its relevance to the emerging service-oriented business. Cloud computing will be a compelling factor in pushing it away from the only focus on delivery and asset management, toward managing the supply and demand relationship for business services and creating a world-class supply chain.

For the next generation of cloud computing, IT organizations are still trying to understand how to use technology and cloud computing to explore the ways, content, and causes of virtualization, private cloud, infrastructure as services, software as services, and platform-as-services implementations. However, if we only focus on this, we will "trees trees". Adopting a technology-oriented cloud approach can create a more passive situation for future development because technology can only be calibrated to cost-the main metric is TCO. And the next generation of cloud is not much related to the cost of using technology to reduce costs, it is important to create value and services, these values and services can bring users a direct visible benefit, people are willing to pay for this. After the advent of a new generation of cloud services, businesses will not queue up for IT projects to publish. Instead, they take advantage of two powerful tools--a network connector and a credit card--bypassing it to get the services they want, freeing valuable innovation money from the IT budget.

Service-Centric IT architecture

In the context of a new cloud, businesses need services-technology-supported services that help them carry out their business. The traditional role of it has been to provide and manage technology-based performance, which is the collection of assets such as applications, databases, networks, storage, and servers. It is a lifecycle of planning, creation, and operation that is carried out through project requirements in different technical areas. This is a delivery-oriented, technology-centric approach.

But the nature of the new generation of clouds is not delivered by technology, but driven by procurement and consumer services. The operating modes of these services are flexible and are typical on-demand execution. The procurement process is simple, now buy now pay. Counter transactions between consumers and value delivery have been replaced by simple credit card exchanges. This is quite different from the traditional it model. Business cloud service providers are working to create and expand cloud services and are rapidly becoming major competitors in internal IT departments.

The cloud will eventually drive a massive change in it, from a technology-focused organization to a service-centric IT organization. Some people worry that the safety and reliability of the problem in the long run does not hinder the development of the cloud. It must be rebuilt, from a technology-centric architecture (providing and managing assets) to "the control point of enterprise centralized service procurement" (service-centric). In order to achieve this goal, enterprises are also required to carry out behavioural, cultural norms and changes in the enterprise model.

Service-centric It functions will enter a highly fledged state and evolve into a business function-a service provider that revolves around a set of products that customers value and are willing to pay. Service-centric It delivery is a technology-implemented, up-front integrated service. This service provides complete technology and performance, and can achieve business value once technology and performance are integrated.

As part of the enterprise strategy, these services are integrated into a service portfolio. In other words, the service portfolio of IT development includes the product itself and the business requirements, and it is willing to invest and pay for business value. The difference between the model and the performance-centric model is that the product delivered is a unit-purchased service in a large catalog, and that the service's parts (and the source of the part) are irrelevant to the buyer. In contrast, a performance-centric delivery model is typically a technical asset cluster that is visible to economic buyers, and its delivery can be achieved through a project-oriented lifecycle.

In a service-centric functional department, the principle of organization is service. This means that everything is organized around the procurement, delivery and management of services-much like a value system-oriented supply chain. The link point of the value chain is the process that shows how service-related work should be carried out horizontally and vertically in the procurement, integration, and management lifecycle.

A new generation of cloud is a business-driven

Through a new generation of cloud, enterprise users without the use of it architecture, can at a reasonable price of their own rapid procurement to meet their needs of high-quality services. It will also lead to innovation and breakthroughs at an unprecedented rate, while meeting the new challenges of the current market and opening up new markets for other companies. Therefore, the cloud is not so much a technological development as a business evolution. It is unwise for IT organizations to be positioned only to adopt and execute cloud technology. The more promising approach is to transform the IT organizational architecture into a service-centric model that is capable of sourcing, integrating, and managing services with world-class efficiency. As a result, it is ready to support the new business model while leveraging technological breakthroughs to provide value to all levels of the business chain.

The IT leaders at the crossroads are facing the innovation of the enterprise in the service-centric new economy. Selecting a new generation of clouds and trying to prepare for their implementation will lead them into a completely different business area. On the way to a new generation of clouds, Hewlett-Packard has been trying to deliver value to its customers with its all-new and upgraded solutions. HP software, for example, launched a cloud services Automation (CSA) solution in May 2010 to build the IT architecture needed to respond to the environment by speeding up the deployment and automation of private cloud and public cloud management.

With the new HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) solution, customers can optimize their applications for public and private cloud, improve business performance, conserve resources, and reduce the risk of deploying and managing cloud-related applications. By adopting a cloud services solution that optimizes applications, businesses can drive services more quickly and accelerate time-to-market to support business innovation. The HP Cloud Services Automation solution includes software products and services as well as Third-party integration to help customers build a complete private or public cloud solution from infrastructure to applications. This scheme can automate the main it process in cloud environment, so it can adopt unified it resource management method regardless of environment.

The HP Cloud Services Automation solution is part of HP's software and Solutions Cloud program, designed to drive industry adoption of cloud services. With HP's IT Management software series and HP's consulting and technical expertise, the program helps customers successfully adopt and manage the entire lifecycle of private and public cloud.