The next five years, the company's internal server will cease to exist

Five years ago in November 2007, it had been predicted that within 10 years the server will disappear completely within the enterprise, which means that after 5 years, the server running in the enterprise will cease to exist. Xiaobian think this prediction is very likely now, because even in Japan, in recent years has also been the emergence of user enterprise enterprise system will be completely transferred to the public cloud situation.

To make such a bold prediction is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In his keynote address at the Microsoft Partner Conference coming to Japan in November 2007, he said: "After 10 years, companies that store data or implement transactions on their own managed servers will Disappear.Almost all the business and application software and system management functions will run through the cloud computing on the Internet. "This speech makes the audience, including the author is very shocked.

Since then, I have been continuing to focus on cloud computing trends. Recently, I really feel that public cloud has become a matter of course objective facts.

For example, electronic equipment manufacturer UMC ELECTRONICS has run SAP ERP (All-in-One) SAP ERP on Amazon Web Services since September 2012. The chief information officer of the company, Suito Tokuji, said Accepting sap japan's advice and decided to take advantage of Amazon cloud services.

It is a foolish question if anyone questions the running of an enterprise's enterprise system in the cloud. SAP, the world's largest developer and supplier of ERP software, has expressed its support for running SAP ERP on AWS. In addition, in September 2012, three large system integrators, SCSK (system integrator for developing software and hardware of Sumitomo, Japan), Teijin International Information Services (ISID) and Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Japanese industry standard FISC (The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems) safety measures standard.

At the end of December 2012, providing risk using credit card settlement services using smartphones Coiney built a credit card payment system on Amazon cloud services while gaining credit card payment system security standards of PCI DSS (Payment Data Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard) Cognition. This shows that the public cloud, especially for AWS, can assert that there is no longer an unworkable system at the technical level.

So if a user's company encounters a package vendor claiming that its software can not run on AWS, I think the vendor's proposition is questionable. The following example is a very interesting testimony.

Miyamoto, a minister of information systems at MISAWA HOME, Japan, said that while the company moved its system to Amazon cloud computing services, it encountered several vendors claiming their software could not run on AWS. In response, when Misawa Housing requested a written report from these vendors stating the reasons why its software could not run on AWS, vendors turned to the fact that packaged software was not yet validated for running on AWS and ended up supporting it Home software runs on AWS.

And those who first take the lead in enabling new technologies are beginning to look to the future. For example, TOKYU HANDS executives Hasegawa expressed the hope that as soon as possible to eliminate local area network (LAN). Tokyu Hands Inc.'s messaging system has been fully moved to Google Apps and is currently migrating all business class systems to AWS. Once the company's internal systems are all moved to the cloud, clients such as pos (point of sale) terminals in the company's computers and stores connect to the cloud. As long as the client is connected to the network, intra-company communications do not need to be done over the network.

For a long time, journalists have used cloud computing to justify their use of cloud computing. However, just as no one will challenge the use of smartphones nowadays, there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for journalists to question the reasons for using cloud computing.