The adoption of cloud technology needs to be cautious, blindly follow the trend inevitably pay the price

To some extent, it seems that now we have stepped into an impetuous era of "someone stands up to take the stage." From the arts and sports to leisure and entertainment projects, anything that is fancy enough to attract propaganda can always attract the attention of the crowd of spectators who do not know the truth. But cloud technology is a special case, its unique complexity contains too many variables, if companies are blindly engaged in this, it will inevitably pay for their own reckless behavior.

Often, we choose to be vigorous and resolute in the face of the latest and greatest advances in technology, without thinking about what it means for the business by the introduction of these fresh blood. Of course, I admit that new technologies often require practical experience to digest, and it is hard to draw valuable conclusions without personal involvement. However, projects such as cloud technology that will radically change the way businesses operate must be given the highest priority and be more cautious than the other traditional solutions for details. With the wind and the hilarious businesses often pay high initial investment at the same time, suddenly found himself simply do not know how to make a lot of equipment bought back to make the best use of.

Gartner Consulting released a survey on the topic of hype in cloud computing, detailing the notable difference between cloud-led deployments and enterprise-policy-switched deployments. Only by establishing a clear goal of development in advance and the intended purpose, and cloud technology and these goals will be closely linked to the business so that the real investment in cloud computing will be rewarded. To be sure, cloud technology represents the future direction of the business and empowers managers with operating costs far below the traditional IT infrastructure. However, if this is the whole impression of cloud computing in the minds of everyone - a cheap, traditional IT replacement - that's a big mistake. The new architecture and organization brought by cloud computing will crush your dreams completely and is likely to drag businesses into the mud of new technological environments.

At present, many unique functions brought by cloud computing have gradually entered our field of vision. According to service provider Ci & T, we expect to see a broad and stable transitional trend for Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the coming year, not to mention big data from cloud computing Load handling capacity. In addition, as data migration and other tools mature, cloud computing will soon become a mainstream application development environment, providing users with more flexible and convenient services.

Of course, small businesses are likely to become the biggest winners in this spectacular cloud change. In the past, huge capital investment and harsh facilities maintenance system made it very difficult for small businesses to compete with business leaders in the field of IT. However, the emergence of cloud platform undoubtedly greatly narrowed the gap between the two. According to Ben Fried, CIO of Google, we are about to embrace the technology inflection point of the new era. Cloud computing will become a priority that most enterprises can not refuse. With the ensuing cost reduction and operational efficiency improvement, There will even be a new industry rule that says "no cloud" will be achieved. In fact, the advent of cloud computing is likely to give a major reshuffle to core business operations of enterprises of all sizes, with unprecedented processing power that enables high-end and low-end businesses, and between enterprise technology and consumer technology The boundaries become more blurred.

However, to completely replace traditional enterprise infrastructure, we also need to accurately measure the specific cost-effectiveness of new IT services represented by cloud computing. The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) pointed out that many companies mistakenly focus their attention on short-term returns while forgetting the medium-to-long-term costs of use and facility life-cycle costs when evaluating the benefits of cloud technology. For example, have you considered the cost of migrating a cloud service to your in-house facility? Once a business is under intense management or financial pressure, cloud services are likely to be eliminated, Preparation is undoubtedly necessary. In addition, along with application migration, we also need to deal with a series of secondary encodings and reformatting, not to mention the overhead associated with business data extraction and validation.

Facts have proved that cloud computing can not be exhaustive, its weakness as an emerging technology is equally evident. To sum up various factors, we found that it is more scientific to divide the application and service items into two parts, one part to the enterprise's own infrastructure and the other part to the cloud platform. The IT department's job is to figure out what applications and services should be left behind, which can be handed over to cloud providers, and to deal with the aftermath.

The work on cloud computing is not the same as managing the physical infrastructure, but the two still have the same point, that is, we must take the time and effort to be careful, otherwise the slack will be tenfold or even a hundredfold To business losses.