Why is the cloud industry being snubbed by CIOs?

Cloud computing is "misguided", and the hot cloud industry suffers from corporate CIO's snub?

By internet companies triggered by the cloud computing boom, in fact, did not answer the real problem of enterprise information construction, leading to cloud computing hype and difficult to land in the enterprise. The author thinks, the Enterprise cloud is different from the Internet cloud. The success of internet-based cloud computing depends more on the innovation of business models. And the real core of enterprise Cloud's Landing and success lies in Enterprise's management innovation and IT governance, which is essentially a new mode of enterprise informatization construction.

What is cloud computing

Cloud computing is the world's most focused it vocabulary, the industry has a different definition and elaboration, but the wording of the confused still make people overwhelmed, but also let the enterprise managers and enterprise IT people,. And the author based on the research and practice of cloud computing for many years, from the enterprise perspective to the different dimensions of cloud computing, can be simply summed up as the "12345" cloud computing, so that people can easily and clearly understand cloud computing.

The cloud computing given by the author in the first cloud computing book is defined as: "Cloud computing is a new kind of it resource delivery and usage model, which means that the resources needed (hardware, platform, software, services) are obtained through the network in an on-demand, dynamically scalable way, and the network that provides resources is called the ' cloud '. ”

So, how do you further understand this definition, and what does it mean to the enterprise? Cloud computing is "one" a new service delivery model, composed of "two" layer structure, providing "three" forms of service, there are "four" deployment configuration model, with "five" large characteristics, its essence can be summed up as "six" word.

The "One" of cloud computing. Cloud computing is a new service delivery model, not only from the technical level is an enterprise computing, more importantly, a business model. To the enterprise means an integrated system, platform, enterprise integration control, integrated operation concept, and emphasis on enterprise integration, system, platform, Synergy, service concept and connotation.

"Two" means cloud computing can be divided into two levels of technology and services, respectively, by the cloud computing platform and cloud application services two systems. The former is mainly to achieve the integration of IT resources and dynamically scalable to the application developers, the latter is the resources provided by the cloud based on different requirements of the packaging for a variety of applications to the end user.

"Three" from the perspective of providing services and user experience, cloud computing can be divided into three service delivery models. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), a development platform as a service (PaaS), and a software application as a service (SaaS).

"Four" refers to four kinds of deployment configuration patterns of cloud computing, including public cloud, private cloud, mixed cloud, community cloud. Community clouds can also be called industry clouds, that is, industry-centric, the supply chain of all industrial groups around the cloud sharing services, business activities.

"Five" means that cloud computing should have five characteristics, the virtual resource pool, web-based access, on-demand self-service, fast, flexible, the use of cost can be measured.

The connotation of enterprise cloud computing

In the process of cloud computing development, as the research continues to deepen, the author of its development trend and construction points in the enterprise gradually clear, clear, and accumulated the following views.

First, the core element of Enterprise cloud Platform is "aggregation". scale, grouping, specialization of aggregation, service value promotion, the group concept of service relevance to the multiplier effect of value. Cloud computing is a new business model, through collaboration across the enterprise, will be in a group of enterprises, both inside and outside of the best applications and professional areas of the effective convergence through the cloud platform, at a lower cost to achieve the professional function/application on demand.

Second, the value of the cloud platform is also reflected in the "one-stop" service. The development and growth of cloud in group enterprises usually depend on a complete set of industry environment, business service chain and the value network formed by the enterprises in the group. In this way, customers, employees, suppliers, and partners can enjoy one-stop service on the cloud service platform.

Third, PAAs is not limited to the basic development platform and middleware, for a group of enterprises, it contains a functional platform of basic professional services, such as the main data-related functions can be provided in a standard service in the context of the PAAs, while the application functionality in a plug-in way with the PAAs integration.

Finally, service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is an important part of enterprise cloud computing technology, and the cloud is a continuum of SOA.

Cloud computing is the key technology underpinning SOA's evolution from the basics to virtualization, and cloud computing has new requirements for virtualization and scalability of services in addition to all the features typical of SOA services. Technically, enterprise cloud computing must combine virtualization technology with the SOA architecture to centrally manage IT resources, reducing it operational costs. The PAAs platform of the SOA architecture, which supports the enterprise's business, application, data integration, the flexibility of application and the elimination of information islands, and realizes the application development, deployment and management of individual business units in the enterprise.

Finally, the essence of cloud computing can be summed up as the word "six", that is, wisdom, resources and patterns.

For Enterprise CIO, focus on how to use the wisdom of cloud computing, CIO wisdom to integrate the enterprise's IT resources, to form a service model, delivered to the enterprise employees, customers and suppliers to use. To the CEO, we should pay attention to how to integrate the enterprise's resources through the enterprise's wisdom, cloud computing wisdom and CEO's wisdom, based on the cloud computing platform to form a business model, delivery to enterprises and customers, suppliers, provide services.

Science for Cloud evolution

Cloud computing, with its virtualization, standardization, and automation, and highly aggregated features, helps organizations address the IT demands of business development in complex environments, prompting companies to rethink it construction and its economic value. So how to improve the speed and agility of enterprise IT applications through cloud computing, provide cross-border IT services, and ensure the integration and security of IT applications, thereby driving business transformation, reducing operating costs, increasing efficiency and enabling enterprises to enter the market quickly? This is the enterprise IT people and cloud service manufacturers design, implementation of enterprise cloud computing purposes, meaning, but also to the effective landing of cloud computing a challenge. To this end, we must have a scientific enterprise to cloud evolution strategy and path.

Through the above elaboration, we can realize that the enterprise cloud represents the change of enterprise management mode, the change of business model and the innovation of technology. To do this, consider the following strategies: focus on the development of cloud computing technology, especially the technology development of enterprise cloud computing, understanding the technologies and service providers that are mature and able to fall into the ground, planning the concept of corporate cloud based on business requirements, developing the governance model and management model of cloud computing and enterprise architecture method, from group control, business coordination, Supply chain management, shared services and other business needs considerations; Business component--gradually build the business components within the group, business components can repeatedly set up a series of functional procedures and service modules. Commercial components, standardization, service, and finally through the unified interface to provide services after the package, Enterprise cloud computing from the integration of data management began to cloud evolution. Centralize, integrate, standardize, virtualize, automate and cloud IT resources in the group enterprise.

Finally, it can be summed up the enterprise to cloud evolution or cloud computing landing three elements: first, it is to support the cloud computing IT governance, enterprise management and enterprise architecture methods; The second is the SOA architecture of the PAAs platform to support business, application, data integration, application flexibility and the elimination of information islands, and realize the Enterprise business unit of the personalized business application development, deployment and management; third, IT resources integration dynamic and easy to expand the data center dynamic resource pool construction, to achieve IT resources centralized management, service delivery capacity.

Based on the enterprise strategy, management and business needs, planning enterprise cloud Platform, considering implementation strategy and evolution path, to get the long-term development of enterprise cloud computing platform. Enterprise Development, Enterprise management, it construction, cloud exhibition future.

(The author is the group leader of China Pharmaceutical group informatization expert team, Information Department director Revan)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)