Via Joe McKendrick, I came across Charlie Bess’ post listing some metric suggestions for cloud computing adopters. Bess’ list:
- Provisioning time (down, leading)
- Service reuse (up, lagging)
- Utilization (hardware, storage…) (up, lagging)
- Uptime/hour (down, lagging)
- In house personnel dedicated to operations support (down, lagging)
- Business value generated per effort hour (up, lagging)
- Business value generated per watt consumed (up, lagging)
- % of IT budget dedicated to fixed costs and maintenance (down, lagging)
In reading the list, note the “items in parenthesis are first "the good trend" and if it was a leading or lagging indicator.”
This will be an important topic in 2010, and Bess’ list is a great starting point. I especially like the business value focus, and the recognition that cloud computing does incur in-house personnel costs. As Bess mentions, there needs to be more leading indicators, otherwise organizations might be inclined to stay with known costs, rather than introduce unknown expense, and of course, risks.
This is definitely a stream I’ll be following over 2010, the real-costs, value and risks. And how the value proposition changes with the element of time.
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Reports from the Trenches: What’s Working in Virtualization and Green IT, moderated by Larry Hale, Director, Office of Infrastructure Optimization, GSA
Panelists:
- Jack Baxter, Manager, IT&S, Government Printing Office
- Richard Fichera, Director, Blade Systems Strategy, HP
- Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus
- Dale Wicklizer, US Public Sector CTO, NetApp
Larry Hale has some starter questions for the panel:
1. Biggest challenges in adopting virtualization?
Jack Baxter: Greatest challenges: application qualification, funding, hardware and how it’s going to be used. Heterogeneous environment calls for a lot of up-front research.
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Now, Russ Daniels, VP & CTO, Cloud Services Strategy, Hewlett Packard. Some Cloud capabilities have been previously discussed (in industry) as utility computing.
More interesting, from Russ’s perspective: "The cloud is the internet’s next stage of evolution".
The cloud is great for connecting. It’s more than an alternative delivery system. Connecting people to people, people to experiences, data to context & location, businesses to customers and businesses to businesses.
"Experience is a never ending stream of events."
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