Cloud computing will soon become reality, and this will force IT professionals to quickly adapt the definition of this technology. As a result of socio-economic situation which continues to experience very rapid revolution that gave birth to cloud computing, where technology is needed for speed and reliability are more than technology will advance so that this technology will be achieved at the level of investment in terms of cloud service is quick and easy.
Cloud was present in front of us today, but what is the cloud? Where The aim? and what are the risks? and how IT organizations prepare for this? That question will be present at least by some practitioners or applicants IT, Cloud computing in basic are using Internet-based services for support to business process. Cloud services typically have several characteristics, such as:
Deployed very quickly, so quickly means instant for implementation.
1. Later start-up costs of this technology may be very low or absent and no capital investment.
2. Cost of service and usage will be based on a commitment that does not fix.
3. This service can easily upgrade or downgrade in quickly without a Penalty.
4. This service will use the method of multi-tenant (many customers in one platform).
5. The ability to customize service will be limited.
Cloud technology will give the contract to the user for the service on three levels:
1. Infrastructure as Service, this includes Grid for virtualized server, storage & network. Examples such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service.
2. Platform-as-a-service: it focuses on the application which in this case allows the developer to not think about the hardware and keep its focus on application development without having to worry about operating systems, infrastructure scaling, load balancing and so on. Examples include include Force.com and Microsoft Azure investment.
3. Software-as-a-service: It will focus on Web-based application interface premises are accessed via Web Services and Web 2.0. example is Google Apps, SalesForce.com and social networks like FaceBook application.
Some investors are still trying to explore the adoption of cloud technology is to be business as Amazon and Google already has a special offer on for cloud technology, Microsoft and IBM has also invested millions of dollars for this.
View of these trends we can predict the future, the technology standards will be more modest because of the availability of many cloud service.
So what are the risks?
As was said as a business service, with the cloud technology you should know and be sure of what you paid and what you invest it for your needs fully use this service. You should pay attention to several parts:
1. Service levels - Cloud providers may not be consistent with the performance of the application or transaction. This requires you to understand the service level you get the transaction response time, data protection and data recovery.
2. Privacy - As someone else / other companies also make the possibility of hosting your data will be read out by the government or the U.S. may occur without your knowledge or approve of you.
3. Compliance - You must also consider the regulation of business you have, in this case the theoretical cloud service provider is expected to equalize the level of compliance for data storage in the cloud, but because the service is still very young, you are expected to be very careful in terms of data storage.
4. Data ownership - Is your data still belongs to you so that data stored in the cloud? This question may be a little weird, but you need to know such things happened on his Facebook that tries to change its terms of use aggrement that questioned it.
5. Data Mobility - Can you share data between cloud service? cloud, and if you terminate your relationship how to get your data back? What format will you use? or can you ensure that copies of its data has been erased?
For a service that is still quite critical to your company, the best advice is to ask this as the details and get all the details in a state's commitment in writing.
What does the Smart Company at this time?
There are many opportunities for IT organizations in particular to promote cloud service. Many organizations are trying to add this firut the infrastructure that they had before to take advantage of "cloud bursting"; especially if you need extra capacity or extra activities, you can take advantage of the cloud rather than investing resources in-house.
Development / test and a similar activity is also a great place for the cloud, allowing you to reduce pengeleluaran per capita and the cost of data center continues to meingkat in terms of speed and uptime.
While companies are not shy reluctant to implement cloud technology for their data and save it as their own facilities to ensure the well-kept corporate policy would be better, thus ensuring the komputerasisasi the cloud as a system process that needs to be more independent.
Are you ready?
If your organization has just exploring technology there are several cloud services cloud that has been fairly well established and can be taken into consideration such as e-mail service. However, for security issues, by developing your internal infrastructure into the cloud model would be better.
With this role has IT played a part in this business model needed for today's economy. How do you improve the speed and uptime? and how you can to support business operations and expenses with a little fix?
The first step you should do is learn the system of cloud service contract. make sure each process to be simple, can be repeated and added value to your business.
Second, you must identify what services can be utilized in the cloud and which should be internal. It is very important for you to know about the system and service cores that can be utilized by your business. and you should categorize some of the elements of your business based on the risk of the use of cloud services.
The last step, you have to do sourcing strategy to obtain a very low cost, but it has scalability and flexibility for your business needs. This includes consideration of ownership and mobility data protection, compliance and some element such as a traditional IT contract.
Adapted from: David Robbins, Network World
Robbins was a CTO for IT at NetApp company. He is responsible for identifying and selecting new technologies and adopt the technology road map and timing to deliver IT NetApp.
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