Session Abstract: Customers, prospects, and partners use the Web to connect to enterprise applications at an increasing rate, underscoring the need for high developer productivity that achieves superior time-to-market relative to rivals. Cloud computing provides a powerful combination of value and cost drivers, and a growing number of Web-facing enterprise applications will find a home there, heralding a new era in enterprise Web development and execution.
Key Issues:
- What’s driving the convergence of Web and cloud AD, and what does the market offer today?
- How will future enterprise-developed solutions be architected, and how will the software development life cycle evolve?
- How should this be factored into near-term AD decisions on development environments, tools, methodologies and staff/skill planning?
Eric opens: By 2014, about a 1/3 of new web applications will be developed on platforms in the cloud. Platform that is horizontally scalable, designed for multi-tenancy.
Drivers of this enterprise shift: developer productivity, time to market, cost of ownership. more >>
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Session Abstract: Is your organization considering cloud computing? Are you tired of hearing about simplistic (email and calendaring), enterprise irrelevant (Twitter, Facebook), and extreme (Google Datacenter) use cases? You aren’t alone. In this session, government and enterprise practitioners will discuss the cloud computing use cases they are considering, actively pursuing, and rejecting. In addition to the use case specifics, the panelists will share insights on financial benefits, true implementation costs, assessing and managing risk, governance, standards and their cloud computing wish list.
Moderators: David W. Cearley, Gartner and Richard Soley, OMG / SOA Consortium
Panelists: Clark Dorman of Next Century, Andy Lapkin of Kelley Blue Book, Joseph Larizza of Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust
This is the first of two SOA Consortium Panels at Gartner AADI. The second is SOA Success Stories on Wednesday. As SOA-C Program Director, I helped organize this panel. My fingerprints are all over the session abstract. more >>
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Next week, I’m attending Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development & Integration Conference (AADI) in Vegas. I’ll be splitting my time amongst SOA, Cloud Computing and Event Processing sessions. I haven’t built my agenda yet, but I’ll definitely be at the SOA Consortium end-user panels on Cloud Computing Use Cases and SOA Success Stories.
When possible, I’ll be blogging and tweeting from the sessions. The conference twitter hashtag is #gartneraadi.
If you are attending and want to connect on SOA, Cloud Computing, SOA & Cloud Computing and/or Event Processing, please send me an email, or ping me on Twitter.
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This week, Gartner is holding a Data Center Conference in Vegas. A press release from this morning is on private vs. public cloud spend by IT organizations:
“Despite the economies of scale offered by public cloud providers, private cloud services will prevail for the foreseeable future while public cloud offerings mature, according to Gartner, Inc. Through 2012, IT organizations will spend more money on private cloud computing investments than on offerings from public cloud providers.
Gartner defines public cloud computing as a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies. Private cloud computing is defined as a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to internal customers using Internet technologies.”
Compared dollars to dollars, this statement is pretty much a no-brainer. Private cloud computing requires investments in hardware, software and operations. Consuming public cloud computing offerings is essentially pay-as-you-go. I say essentially, because an organization may deploy licensed software to a public cloud computing environment (CCE), and may invest in application and software management tooling to facilitate/orchestrate cloud computing. Both models require process, and possibly, portfolio changes.
Aside from the dollar base comparison, I do agree with the sentiment of the release, that organizations will employ a hybrid (private-public CCE) adoption pattern.
““The hype of cloud computing is that existing IT architectures and processes can be simply replaced by the cloud," said Tom Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “The reality of the future IT organization, however, is somewhat a combination. Larger enterprises will continue to have an IT organization that manages and deploys IT resources internally, some of which will be ‘private clouds.’ IT organizations will also take on IT service sourcing responsibility, determining when to leverage external providers, when to deploy internally, and when to leverage both for specific services.”
Private cloud services will be a stepping stone to future public cloud services and, over time, will span both private and public cloud resources in a hybrid manner. For many large enterprises, private cloud services will therefore be required for many years, perhaps decades, as public cloud offerings mature.
Gartner analysts said appropriate investments in private cloud computing will also make it easier for enterprises to gradually use public cloud services in the future. For services destined to be cloud at some point in time, enterprises should evaluate the return on investment from developing private cloud services, while waiting for external offerings to mature.
“Many of the investments in private cloud computing will prepare the enterprise for public cloud computing. These investments are not just technology changes — they are also process, cultural and business interface changes,” said Mr. Bittman. “Making these changes sooner rather than later will help enterprises to take better cloud sourcing decisions and potentially make for an easier transition to public cloud computing.””
The release continues with recommendations around organization models and a “three-point action plan for CIOs and infrastructure and operation leaders”. Read the release.
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Gartner Fellows Neil MacDonald and David Mitchell Smith spoke with Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, “to discuss his vision for cloud computing, and the impact on enterprise computing and the IT industry.” Their conversation has been published as a Gartner RAS Core Research Note (G00172235), and made available for public consumption via a Microsoft reprint.
Published Key Findings:
- “Ozzie’s (and thus, Microsoft’s) vision of cloud computing emphasizes hybrid enterprise/cloud computing, where organizations choose when and where computing takes place locally versus in cloud-based infrastructure, and emphasizes that the on-premises and cloud-based solutions work seamlessly together.
- As with early encryption issues, Ozzie believes that security and privacy issues will be addressed as the industry matures in a combination of legislative advances, as well as industry cooperation.
- Ozzie’s vision for cloud computing includes system infrastructure, an application platform and finished applications being delivered as a service.
- Microsoft is investing in its own data centers because it must in order to provide its consumer-based services. It believes it is helping to lead the industry in providing innovations in data center architectures.
- Ozzie believes the future of cloud computing is in the experience delivered via a browser across multiple devices — mobile, PC and TV-type screens — which is a vision he refers to as "three screens and a cloud." “
The entire report is well-worth the read.
A quick excerpt on Ozzie’s hybrid model vision:
"Ozzie: I believe in a hybrid model. I fundamentally, deeply believe in a hybrid model at the experience side and at the back-end side.
At the back-end side, it depends on the size of enterprise and the workload, as well as the segment of the enterprise and whether it is highly regulated or whatever. The decisions regarding what to keep on-premises versus what to distribute into the cloud will vary dramatically. Very small businesses will put almost everything into the cloud. Very large businesses will put all their infrastructural systems, such as mail, phone systems and document management, into the cloud. Enterprise applications that have high integration requirements and a lot of legacy issues will stay on-premises. What happens in the middle is a mix."
“…But again, it’s a hybrid architecture. If you don’t have the center, then you can’t rendezvous. You can’t find each other. You can’t connect in any way, shape or form. However, if you don’t have the edge, then you don’t have the agility. You pay for ingress and egress when you don’t have to.”
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