[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Big Players cornered the cloud?

>
> I think it's a mistake to think of "cloud" purely in terms of
> outsourcing IT services to some giant internet data center. For large
> companies I can see them thinking about cloud more in terms of a
> way to
> treat their internal infrastructure to get more flexibility and better
> utilization. Also Internal cloud is much less scary from a
> regulation/compliance perspective.
>

Agreed.

>>
>> However, on the flip side of this you have an opportunity for
>> existing
>> global companies to leverage their data centers by becoming "cloud"
>> providers.
>
> That's pretty much what Amazon did isn't it? The question for most
> large
> IT organizations will be, "if I have enough spare capacity to make the
> idea of becoming a cloud service provider worthwhile, then what the
> hell
> am I doing with that much capacity in the first place?" ;-) Might make
> sense for a few companies, but the vast majority will see internal
> cloud
> as an opportunity to reduce their infrastructure capacity and become
> more efficient, rather than as business opportunity to sell "cloud
> capacity"

Yes it is. And the nature of technology is to replicate on success.

As far as capacity goes, since when does a company wait to build/
purchase a DC until it is full or at capacity of the new DC? I'm just
saying that companies are not going to just dump their existing DCs
for an externally provided cloud just because it is the chosen path.
It seems there will be a continuum of scenarios of implementing/
deploying to clouds, not just 1, 2 or even 5 global cloud providers.
I'd say more like 50 - 100. It makes sense to me that companies will
be open to using external clouds for some services, but more prone to
their own cloud for highly sensitive or secure services/data.

The path of least resistance always has a higher level of adoption. I
don't think that path is the same for every service in every
organization. But establishing internal clouds does make sense for
operations efficiency in the same way it made sense to Google and
Amazon.

Vince Marco
Enterprise Frameworks, Inc.

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