The future of cloud computing is still a long way

In the past, Siebel and SAP are the top masters in the arena of CRM. Whoever thought Salesforce.com did not fall after making Huashan Sword with them? Instead, it took 10 years to achieve a new glory. At last Even Siebel have been defeated by him, from disappearing in the arena, have to say that it is indeed a miracle. However, behind this miracle is cloud computing, which everyone has now heard, but not many people really understand its new vocabulary. Mark originally in his book is only emphasized the concept of the cloud, but as to how to set up and design cloud services and other key issues turned a blind eye, obviously left.

This book for my CIO, the biggest impact than changing my attitude toward cloud computing. Before I think cloud computing is a concept, speculation and more, less substance. Today it seems that for many IT professionals, the wolf may actually come. Although the business model offered by cloud technology will ultimately not be a disruptive technology, it is not legal at this point, but it is better to care about it than to ignore it. In particular, cloud computing has brought changes in the way companies access IT services. In the past, companies had to invest in planned capital in order to gain access to IT services. Plans were usually based on the greatest demand of the business in the future. The basic way to obtain IT services was "Plan Plan" - "Build Build" - "Run Run". To get an IT solution, from planning, implementation to the line usually takes months. The cloud computing completely changed this model. IT services become a cost of expenditure, companies can scale according to their own scale, the quality of operations have the flexibility to stretch, IT costs and sales linked closely. IT's service model has been changed to "Procurement Source" - "Integrate Integrate" - "Manage Manage". In the past, IT vendors usually proposed different IT solutions for different enterprise sizes. In the cloud computing environment, enterprises no longer need to consider the factors of their own scale. The IT services available to large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises are also easily available.

To understand cloud computing in depth, it is best to look at its history first. It is said that the first company to provide true cloud computing services should be Amazon. As we all know, Amazon was originally an online retailer. As long as it is a retail business, in the United States will face a problem - that is, a large part of the annual sales are achieved during Christmas, that Amazon needs to its website capabilities according to the number of user transactions during the Christmas season to plan - While Amazon does not have to invest a lot in storefront investment, as was the case with traditional retail stores, its data center is also a small overhead. And this spending is 11 months redundant, only one month a year is running at full capacity. In order to reduce costs, Amazon sold off its 11 months of computing power to other companies that needed data center services, creating the earliest Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) model. Now it seems that cloud computing in addition to the IaaS model, there PaaS (Platform As A Service) model, such as Google's APP Engine and Microsoft's Azure; SaaS (Software AS A Service) models such as Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.com and so on . Enterprises to use cloud computing, in the end what kind of mode by the status of the business to decide, in short, to determine the value of the business to bring careers.

Look at the current situation in China. I personally think most companies belong to the nature of "hanging out", the former product packaged as a selling point of cloud computing, in fact, there is no big technical gold content. The lack of understanding of the domestic IT talent cloud technology, cloud technology on the CPU, memory, storage and network virtualization requirements. The first virtualization in the hardware architecture was made before we talked about the virtualization of the platform and the software, all of which required the IT staff to recharge and reassess their capabilities. For CIOs, it's time to re-understand how to evaluate cloud solutions, their integration with current systems, and of course the redefinition of cloud computing security and governance models. In conclusion, the ultimate measure of whether or not to adopt a cloud service should be to determine how much a cloud service can bring to the business.

I just look at the possible impact of cloud computing from a CIO's perspective, and the specific technical details need to continue thinking. Such as how to implement private cloud services, how to combine private and public cloud services, and how public cloud services integrate with existing systems and data.

But my instinct is that 70% -80% of cloud computing may subvert our current IT. Imagine today's most advanced IT applications in the United States - the United States, if the government issued a cloud of standards and regulatory compliance documents (I heard that there are plans brewing) to cloud service providers to put forward strict requirements and service standards and Standard, it may be the catalyst for IT transformation. For example, if the service provider is like a bank nowadays, corporate data is like the money we have in the bank. Will you feel unsafe? Maybe everyone will feel more safe on the service provider. If this cloud security can be solved, I believe many companies will be interested.