Public, Private, or Hybrid: Where’s the Value Today and Where’s It Going?
There’s no doubt that virtualization, automation, and service-centric architectures lead to cost efficiency and more agile information technology. But there are many ways to deploy clouds: Privately, atop on-premise hardware behind enterprise firewalls; publicly, through third-party service providers; or in a hybrid, blended model that leverages the best of both worlds. Which of these is right today? Why, and will this change? Join this panel for a look at the sweet spot of clouds and how utility computing will evolve in coming years.
Moderator – Vanessa Alvarez, Industry Analyst, Enterprise Infrastructure, Frost & Sullivan
Panelists:
- Joseph Ziskin, Vice President, Strategy, IBM
- James Watters, Sr. Manager Cloud Solutions, VMWare
- Sailesh Yellumahanti, Director, Service Provider Practice, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
- Valerie Knafo, Senior Manager, Business Development, Dell, DCS
- Scott McClellan, Vice President & Chief Technologist, Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard Company
- Jinesh Varia, Amazon AWS Tech Evangelist
Opening statements
Joseph Ziskin, IBM: Setting context from IBM point of view, Joseph reminds us, no enterprise will move the entirety of their service delivery to “the cloud”. more >>
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Session title: Cloudonomics: The Surprising Economics of the Cloud
Session abstract: What’s the math behind cloud computing? In this opening session, Joe Weinman — who coined the term "Cloudonomics" and writes and researches the economics of on-demand IT — will discuss the inevitability of cloud computing, review his analysis of elastic computing and offer some counterintuitive insights into valuing the cloud. Bernard Golden — CEO of Hyperstratus — will provide nuanced insights into cloudonomics using some real world examples.
Speaker – Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, Author, AT&T
Speaker – Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus
Joe Weinman opened the session with the most important question, Why do Cloud? In the why, he was referring to the hard economic value of doing cloud. Not cloud computing for technology innovation or patents, but for economic benefits.
Before delving into the cloudonomics, Joe walked through some definitions of cloud computing, including NIST, but then settled on something simple. Cloud is Common, Location Independent, Online, Utility, on-Demand. He contrasted this with another definition, Vapor = Virtualized, Automated, Provisioning, of Resources. In Joe’s opinion, a complete private cloud implementation is ‘vapor’.
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Posted by brenda michelson at 1:29 am in 100-days, Blog, economics | Permalink
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This week, I’ve taken my cloud watching on the road to Silicon Valley for the Cloud Connect conference. The program starts on Tuesday morning with 3 hours of keynotes and general sessions. The following “industry visionaries” are scheduled to “discuss the growth and future of cloud computing.”
- Adam Gross, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Dropbox
- Guy Rosen, CEO, Vircado and Blogger, JackOfAllClouds.com
- Dan Elron, Managing Partner, Technology Strategy, Accenture
- Alistair Croll, Co-Founder, Bitcurrent
- Chris McGarry, Co-Founder and CEO, Omnetic
- Jas Dhillon, General Manager Evidence.Com and TASER Virtual Systems; Chief Strategy Officer, TASER International, TASER International
- Bob Flores, Founder and President, Applicology, Inc.and Former CTO of the CIA
- Matt Thompson, West Region General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
- Mark Prichard, Senior Principal Product Manager, Java Platforrm Group, Oracle
- Vijay Bhagavath, U.S. Equity Research, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
- Rodney Joffe, Senior Vice President, and Senior Technologist, Neustar
- Scott Chasin, CTO, McAfee Software-as-a-Service
- Darren Feher, CEO, Conviva and Former CTO for NBC
First up, with a quick introduction is Alistair Croll, the Cloud Connect content program chair. Alistair says “cloud computing is the fuel for the next level of human consciousness. Cloud Computing is the gray matter for human 2.0.”
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Per usual, James Urquhart published a thought provoking post on cloud computing and geopolitics. Recently, as part of my 100-day cloud watch, I’ve pointed out the importance of cloud computing environment location in respect to data residence. In his post, James goes further, or perhaps better stated, starts earlier. Raising awareness on the paths that data travels, to reach its destination:
“How would an application operator deploy applications at a minimum "distance" from users in a network sense, without finding themselves passing data through a country that would jeopardize the safety of that data? Again, the path your data takes between two physical locations may not be the path you expected.
You are already seeing some examples of how the governments and corporations are trying to mold the Internet and "the cloud" to fit into human geopolitical realities. Countries like China, Iran, Pakistan, and others have demonstrated their willingness to control the Internet transoms over their nation’s borders, and to apply technology to controlling the "border traffic" at those crossing points.”
In his post, James makes some great observations on computing versus world boundaries, and poses a challenge for cloud computing, networking, business and political leaders:
“What’s missing, however, is any form of formal infrastructure within the Internet/Intercloud itself to "automate" mapping the human world to the computer world. Is this even possible, I often wonder. Can we (or, more to the point, should we) try to "codify" the laws and regulations of the world into digital form, allowing computer networks and applications to self-regulate?
What would the political fallout of such a system be?
In cloud computing, "virtual" geography and "physical" geography are both extremely important, and it’s up to humans to keep the two aligned. Because this is complex and prone to error, it may be one of the great business opportunities to come out of the disruption that cloud computing is wreaking on IT practices.”
Read his post. Remember it’s not just the destination, but also the journey that counts.
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Posted by brenda michelson at 11:38 am in 100-days, Cloud Watch, adoption, data, networks | Permalink
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Continuing my survey of the cloud computing surveys, I’ve been staring at the results from the June 2009 CIO Magazine cloud computing survey, wondering what I’m missing. The responses that have me scratching my head are related to cloud computing drivers, budget spend and budget reductions. Snapshots of the three questions follow.
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As you can see, the first question shows reduce hardware and staffing costs as the primary drivers of cloud computing. The second question attempts to quantify this savings (% budget reduction) over time. Take note of the Average (Mean) line. The expected reductions are 5.6%, 7.6% and 9.3% over 1, 3 and 5 years respectively. As a former Senior IT leader with budget responsibility, I recognize that 5.6-9.3% budget savings aren’t easy to come by, and certainly add up as savings, or provide an alternative source for strategic investments.
So, all good. Until you review the Average (Mean) line of the projected spend question. That line shows on-demand service expenditure as 5.6%, 8.0% and 10.2% of budget over 1, 3 and 5 years respectively. Comparing the spend against savings, you’ll see the spend is equal to, or greater than, the projected savings.
Ok. Initial years IT spend outpacing projected savings isn’t exactly a newsflash. IT is a long-term investment, and return isn’t immediate. Certainly, if respondents are building on-premise cloud computing environments, you would expect a longer time period to savings, with a more sustainable savings stream.
However, this survey focused on “on-demand services”, as in ‘from away’:
“The way most CIOs define cloud computing today is as a Software-as-a-Service-like arrangement where your company does not own the software, hardware or any specific equipment run by the provider. Access to the cloud vendor’s systems takes place over the Internet in some secured way and for that access, customers pay a subscription fee that rises or falls with the level of use. Cloud computing offerings are often referred to as “on-demand services”, “cloud services”, “Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)”, etc.”
Translation: a subscription (rental) economic model. If that’s the case, then this survey shows that on average, organizations are paying more in rent than they expect to recoup as savings. Obviously, no CIO is consciously making that call, spend $1.00 to save 90 cents, indefinitely. Something is missing, and I don’t think it’s me.
Rather, there are business value benefits the survey didn’t consider, such as shortening time to value, increased focus on core capabilities, extending a value chain, or even the creation of short-term business innovation spaces.
So, this is a long-winded way of saying, do benchmark analysis, but then do your own math. In doing that math, don’t limit your sights to the IT side of the equation.
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Posted by brenda michelson at 5:21 pm in 100-days, Cloud Watch, adoption, economics | Permalink
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Last week, in discussing findings from the BT Global Services Enterprise Intelligence survey, I wrote about why cloud computing environment location matters:
“Many of the clouderati will tell you that the physical location of the cloud computing environment shouldn’t matter to adopters. While technically and architecturally this might be true, given appropriate and reliable network connections, there are business implications of physical location. Most notably, regulatory and compliance concerns for cloud-resident data.”
Today, via Twitter, I became aware of an Interactive Data Protection Heat Map, published by Forrester, and shared on their Infrastructure & Operations Professionals blog:
“To help you grasp the varying scope of regulatory requirements at a high level, we’ve also created an interactive privacy heat map that denotes the degree of strictness — highlighting scope of protection, affected entities, ‘adequacy’ standards met, and heavily surveilled countries — across national data protection regulation.”
The map is in Flash, go check it out.
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Posted by brenda michelson at 2:31 pm in 100-days, Cloud Watch, adoption, data, regulatory | Permalink
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