Why do you want the cloud service not as you wish?

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Aleeandro Perilli, an analyst at Gartner, who is now the general manager of Red Hat Inc. (pictured above), said at the recent Red Hat Summit summit. Many Silicon Valley technology companies have lowered their expectations for cloud services, but Perilli has not just put the problem out, and he has made some suggestions for companies that want to build cloud computing services.

Build Enterprise Cloud service Don't be ambitious

Companies always have huge expectations of their own private cloud services, which are the result of a public cloud of architecture and services, most notably Amazon's AWS. So when companies use OpenStack or other proprietary cloud technologies, they want these services to:

• simple

• cheap

• Standardized and fully automated

• The application layer is more "flexible", which means that the enterprise needs a private cloud service that can be expanded automatically or that computing resources be optimized for the specified work.

• Allocate resources based on usage

• Unlimited scalability at the architecture level, which means that companies can deploy cloud services in the way they want.

• Like AWS, simplifying management without the need for complex IT operations interfaces can work.

But in fact, the reality that businesses end up seeing is:

• Extremely complex

• expensive

• Only partially standardized and almost impossible to automate

• Not as flexible as companies want

· Performance constrained

• Heavily reliant on IT management, IT departments are trying to add management layers to cloud resources, including full access and financial control, key management, encryption, and other tools.

This is the reality of today's companies using cloud applications, says Perilli:

Once this happens, businesses will find it more attractive to have a shared cloud, and it's not so easy to build their own data centers.

Start smaller, dream bigger

Perilli does not agree that companies in the production environment to create a fully automated cloud services, he suggested that enterprises should start smaller, but the idea can be grander. In the final analysis, migrating data center applications to a cloud service environment is a very complex task and requires gradual progress. The more components of an application, the more preparation is required. And if the enterprise wants to have more powerful automation function, it is more difficult to realize.

Yes, you can build a cloud service platform in six months, but that's just the beginning. You need to patch it up, optimize the solution, make the entire platform more mature, and add more control and performance management capabilities. You can't build all the platform components overnight.

If you want to consider legacy systems, such as those of older host applications, the level of difficulty in building a cloud service platform will rise as companies struggle to integrate these outdated applications into cloud-based services. In the end, it may take a whole year for the enterprise to transform 10 applications onto the cloud platform. But in reality, enterprises often have thousands of of applications, a huge workload imaginable.

To address the above problems, Perilli gives some suggestions:

1. Reposition your expectations

2. Choose a cloud technology service solution that can match the technical proficiency of the enterprise. Never buy 6 to 12 service management modules from a vendor, because you end up with 1 to 2.

3, first of all to build a reliable cloud development and cloud testing environment, if someone said can provide you with a fully automated cloud services products, do not believe.

4. In order to support the expansion of the application preparation, special consideration should be given to multi-layer cloud architecture.

Have a sense of trust

To be precise, the current private cloud service technology is not mature enough. Perilli gives his own advice that the most important components of any cloud service platform tend to be irrelevant to technology:

While every marketing person says that its cloud services are perfect, we have to realize that no solution is perfect. The most important thing to build a cloud service platform is to trust the product provider and build relationships with them.

In other words, building a viable enterprise-class cloud service platform is a long journey, so keep your eyes open and choose a good partner on the road.

VIA ReadWrite

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)