There is currently a 30percent/ 70percent split between public and private cloud engagements; however, over the next two years, respondents see the use of data and information produced by cloud customers more than doubling, with a corresponding decrease in exclusive internal use.
Over the last decade, cloud computing has transformed the market for IT services. But the journey to cloud adoption has not been without its share of twists and turns. This report looks at lessons that can be derived from companies' experiences implementing cloud computing technology.
Technology organization environment framework in cloud computingTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The document discusses factors that influence cloud computing adoption among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) using the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework. It analyzes previous research applying the TOE framework to understand cloud adoption. The TOE framework identifies three contexts that influence technology adoption - technological, organizational, and environmental. The document develops a three-layer hierarchy of factors within each context based on a literature review. It designs questionnaires to assess the significance of each factor on cloud adoption among SMEs in Bangladesh. An analysis of the questionnaires finds that technological factors have the strongest influence on cloud adoption decisions among SMEs.
This document summarizes a study on barriers to government cloud adoption in Ghana. The study interviewed IT personnel from 12 public agencies to identify challenges they may face in adopting cloud computing. Major inhibiting factors identified include lack of basic infrastructure, data security concerns, unreliable internet connectivity, and a general lack of institutional readiness. The study uses the technology, organization and environment framework to classify adoption factors into technological, organizational, and environmental contexts.
The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past. Its ephemeral nature, global expanse and economic impact all combine in a tidal wave of change. This revolution is called cloud computing.
Since announcing its “Cloud First” policy in 2010, the Federal government has correctly identified cloud computing as a way to reduce costs and improve the use of existing assets, and has accordingly prioritized its adoption. It has also taken judicious steps to protect Federal networks from nefarious cyber-attacks and promote the dissemination of best practices for cybersecurity. The Federal government has also embraced mobility as a means to conduct work from any location. But until now, the implementation of these initiatives has been fragmented and lacked coordination across Federal agencies. This paper offers a framework for integrating these programs in a way that enables the Federal government to realize the economic, technological, and mission-effectiveness benefits of cloud services while simultaneously meeting current Federal cybersecurity
requirements. It advocates shifting from a compliance-based cybersecurity paradigm to
one that is risk-based and focusing on how to most effectively secure their implementation of cloud services.
IRJET-The Benefits of Information and Communication Technology Adoption in Co...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a study on the benefits of adopting information and communication technology (ICT) for construction project management among small and medium enterprises. The study found that while awareness of ICT benefits is growing, adoption is still limited, especially for smaller firms using conventional methods. A survey of 40 small and medium enterprises found the most commonly used technologies were SMS and mobile internet, while use of tools like BIM, GPS, and electronic purchasing was below average. The top barriers to greater ICT adoption were identified as budget constraints, lack of management commitment, insufficient training, and low perceived return on investment. The study concludes there is potential for ICT to improve areas like communication, data sharing, and project monitoring if barriers to adoption can be
This document provides an overview of e-manufacturing and related concepts. It discusses how e-manufacturing uses internet technologies to integrate customers, products, and suppliers. Key aspects discussed include e-maintenance, e-diagnostics, and how e-manufacturing tools can provide benefits like reduced downtime, lower costs, and improved customer satisfaction. The document also examines the evolution of e-manufacturing and how concepts like e-business, e-intelligence, and predictive maintenance have contributed to the development of integrated e-factory systems.
Over the last decade, cloud computing has transformed the market for IT services. But the journey to cloud adoption has not been without its share of twists and turns. This report looks at lessons that can be derived from companies' experiences implementing cloud computing technology.
Technology organization environment framework in cloud computingTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
The document discusses factors that influence cloud computing adoption among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) using the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework. It analyzes previous research applying the TOE framework to understand cloud adoption. The TOE framework identifies three contexts that influence technology adoption - technological, organizational, and environmental. The document develops a three-layer hierarchy of factors within each context based on a literature review. It designs questionnaires to assess the significance of each factor on cloud adoption among SMEs in Bangladesh. An analysis of the questionnaires finds that technological factors have the strongest influence on cloud adoption decisions among SMEs.
This document summarizes a study on barriers to government cloud adoption in Ghana. The study interviewed IT personnel from 12 public agencies to identify challenges they may face in adopting cloud computing. Major inhibiting factors identified include lack of basic infrastructure, data security concerns, unreliable internet connectivity, and a general lack of institutional readiness. The study uses the technology, organization and environment framework to classify adoption factors into technological, organizational, and environmental contexts.
The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past. Its ephemeral nature, global expanse and economic impact all combine in a tidal wave of change. This revolution is called cloud computing.
Since announcing its “Cloud First” policy in 2010, the Federal government has correctly identified cloud computing as a way to reduce costs and improve the use of existing assets, and has accordingly prioritized its adoption. It has also taken judicious steps to protect Federal networks from nefarious cyber-attacks and promote the dissemination of best practices for cybersecurity. The Federal government has also embraced mobility as a means to conduct work from any location. But until now, the implementation of these initiatives has been fragmented and lacked coordination across Federal agencies. This paper offers a framework for integrating these programs in a way that enables the Federal government to realize the economic, technological, and mission-effectiveness benefits of cloud services while simultaneously meeting current Federal cybersecurity
requirements. It advocates shifting from a compliance-based cybersecurity paradigm to
one that is risk-based and focusing on how to most effectively secure their implementation of cloud services.
IRJET-The Benefits of Information and Communication Technology Adoption in Co...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a study on the benefits of adopting information and communication technology (ICT) for construction project management among small and medium enterprises. The study found that while awareness of ICT benefits is growing, adoption is still limited, especially for smaller firms using conventional methods. A survey of 40 small and medium enterprises found the most commonly used technologies were SMS and mobile internet, while use of tools like BIM, GPS, and electronic purchasing was below average. The top barriers to greater ICT adoption were identified as budget constraints, lack of management commitment, insufficient training, and low perceived return on investment. The study concludes there is potential for ICT to improve areas like communication, data sharing, and project monitoring if barriers to adoption can be
This document provides an overview of e-manufacturing and related concepts. It discusses how e-manufacturing uses internet technologies to integrate customers, products, and suppliers. Key aspects discussed include e-maintenance, e-diagnostics, and how e-manufacturing tools can provide benefits like reduced downtime, lower costs, and improved customer satisfaction. The document also examines the evolution of e-manufacturing and how concepts like e-business, e-intelligence, and predictive maintenance have contributed to the development of integrated e-factory systems.
The document discusses how IT managers are navigating increasing demands for mobile and visual collaboration tools from users. It provides insights into IT priorities and plans for unified communications (UC) investments. Key points include:
1) Improving collaboration is a top priority, but reducing costs is also important. The best practice is to design UC projects that drive both hard and soft cost savings.
2) Over half of IT buyers have plans to adopt UC, showing it is taking hold. Vendors now integrate voice, video, messaging and conferencing into consolidated suites.
3) Support for mobility is linked to simplifying and consolidating UC infrastructure to accommodate a range of endpoints. Most enterprises plan mobile UC applications to leverage
The Total Economic Impact of Equinix Interconnection SolutionsEquinix
This document summarizes a study commissioned by Equinix to analyze the total economic impact and potential return on investment from using Equinix interconnection solutions. It interviewed several Equinix customers and constructed a composite organization based on their experiences. The key findings were that the composite organization experienced a 300% return on investment over three years, with $17 million in net benefits from improved application performance, cost savings, and new revenue opportunities enabled by Equinix. The benefits outweighed the upfront and ongoing Equinix costs and internal implementation expenses.
This research report analyzed the popularity and future growth of cloud computing in Dubai based on a survey of people working in the region. The key findings were that 42% of sampled companies currently use cloud services, but 29% have no plans to adopt it in the future. This suggests that while cloud computing is used, its growth may be limited. The report also outlined advantages of cloud computing like cost efficiency, backup/recovery, and easy data access/management based on secondary sources.
Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets: A PerspectiveCognizant
For the financial services industry, the adoption of cloud services has become a viable business directive. As firms work to recoup their losses from the recent financial crisis, pay-as-you-go cloud services allow them to focus more on strategic, innovative and revenue-generating endeavors and less on managing routine IT activities and the supporting infrastructure.
The document summarizes several projected IT trends for 2008 based on a presentation given to a government organization. Some of the key trends discussed include increased focus on green IT to reduce carbon emissions, further adoption of unified communications and IP telephony, greater use of business process modeling and metadata management, and social software gaining more prominence in enterprises. Virtualization and cloud computing are also areas that will continue advancing to improve efficiency and flexibility.
A Framework for Cloud Computing Adoption in South African GovernmentGovCloud Network
Technology adoption is always a critical concern in organizations (private and public). South African government experienced this encounter when adopted Open Source Software (OSS) with the objective to reduce ICT services costs among others. The implementation of OSS in SA government has faced several challenges such as user resistance, human factor, support and funding. As a result of these challenges cost reduction has not been fully achieved. Cost reduction issue ultimately affects implementation of other government programmes such as those who yields job creation, better education, and improving health, etc. The potential alternative to address the same objective as aimed by OSS is Cloud Computing adoption. Cloud Computing promise to offer the SA government more advantages OSS. This study explore the feasibility of Cloud Computing adoption as an alternative to enable cost reduction, effectiveness and efficient of IT services in SA government as was aimed by OSS initiative.
1) The survey found that financial services firms are adopting cloud technologies faster than other industries, with almost half already using private clouds.
2) Financial services firms see cloud adoption not just as a new IT delivery method, but as a key enabler for business model innovation and new revenue streams.
3) The survey identified workloads that are well-suited for financial services cloud projects, including ERP applications, desktops, help desks, and data analytics in private clouds, and conferencing, communications, and storage in public clouds.
Building Innovative Industry Solutions for System zdkang
This document summarizes a presentation about using System z for smarter computing. It discusses how System z can help organizations reduce IT costs across various industries by up to 56% while improving capabilities. Examples are given of companies leveraging System z to deliver new innovations in areas like transportation, banking, and technology. Industry frameworks are presented as the foundation of IBM's industry solutions, with System z playing a key role in supporting workloads like core banking, payments, and risk management.
Capgemini ses - smart grid operational services- utility mobile it adoption...Gord Reynolds
The document discusses the benefits and reasons for utility companies to adopt mobile solutions. Key points:
1) Utility companies face challenges like aging infrastructure, workforce, and stricter regulations, which increases the need for mobile technologies to improve productivity, decision making, and operational efficiency.
2) Mobile technologies allow field workers to access enterprise systems remotely, complete tasks faster, and exchange information in real-time, reducing costs and cycle times.
3) Implementing mobile solutions can streamline operations, improve asset management, customer service, and employee satisfaction for utility companies. Selecting the right mobile applications tailored to their industry needs allows utilities to address challenges and maximize their existing investments in back-end systems.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
ENTSO-E Draft Network Code for Operational Securitydavidtrebolle
- The draft Network Code on Operational Security lacks harmonization and leaves too much autonomy to individual TSOs, which could undermine security of supply across Europe and is inconsistent with the target model of an integrated EU electricity market.
- The code lacks clear and precise parameters and guidelines for TSO actions, using vague terms like "sufficient" instead of defined limits. This could result in unjustified actions by TSOs and loss of generation capacity.
- The code does not sufficiently consider the impact on electricity markets or refer clearly to other related framework guidelines and network codes on issues like balancing and capacity allocation. There is a need for greater coherence and consistency across codes.
Is ‘Enterprise Mobility’ The Way Forward For Enterprises? Part I: Findings an...IJERA Editor
Attracted by the benefits offered by mobility technologies directly relating to cost savings and improved productivity, enterprises are keen to adopt BYOD models; however, without proper feasibility studies and mobility policies in place, BYOD will not be able to generate the desired results. The commercialization of technology or BYOD is rapidly transforming the enterprise mobility landscape and changing the way that organizations conduct business. However, the adoption of this concept enables enterprises to devise stringent and precise mobility policies to avoid any security and privacy issues.
The document discusses the differences between a "good enough network" and an "enterprise next-generation network". A good enough network focuses only on initial capital costs while an enterprise next-generation network takes a strategic approach considering total cost of ownership, business capabilities, and future needs. Building a network based only on low costs can increase costs over time and limit an organization's ability to adapt. The document recommends considering total cost of ownership, future requirements, and business value when making network investments.
This document discusses using soft computing techniques to evaluate coordination in supply chains. It proposes a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) model to measure the extent of coordination (EC) based on four coordination mechanisms: contracts, information sharing, information technology, and joint decision making. The EC is calculated as a weighted sum of the crisp scores of the four mechanisms, where the weights are determined from pairwise comparisons in the AHP. The model provides a way to quantitatively assess coordination across a supply chain and analyze different coordination scenarios. It is demonstrated through a numerical example involving order quantities and performance measures at different supply chain levels.
The document discusses how enterprises are increasingly pursuing interconnection strategies to drive revenue growth in today's digital economy. It finds that the number of interconnected enterprises is expected to more than double by 2017. Interconnection provides quantifiable benefits like increased revenue opportunities and cost savings, with over 1/3 of surveyed companies reporting over $10 million in value from interconnection solutions. However, enterprises face challenges in adapting old IT architectures to support new growth strategies that rely heavily on interconnection across multiple locations and clouds. Direct, secure interconnection is presented as a solution to address issues like high latency, systems uptime, and cybersecurity risks in a way that public internet connections cannot.
Printing the Future: From Prototype to ProductionCognizant
Additive manufacturing (AM) such as 3-D printing heralds a new industrial revolution. We offer a framework for analyzing capabilities and implementing AM technologies to help you smoothly move from prototyping to volume production.
Booz Allen Hamilton offers an integrated suite of cloud capabilities, deep subject matter expertise, and unparalleled hands-on experience with a broad range of cloud technology products.
This document discusses cloud computing, including its benefits and risks for businesses. Cloud computing provides shared IT resources over the internet on-demand, allowing businesses to avoid large upfront costs. It can increase efficiency and scalability while reducing costs. However, it also presents security risks to sensitive data if responsibilities between clients and providers are not clear or if standards lack. When selecting a cloud provider, businesses should carefully consider the provider's security controls, access management, legal policies for data storage, and ability to exit the agreement if needed. Overall, cloud computing offers a potentially cost-effective way to access computing resources but also requires managing risks to data security and privacy.
Cloud Pricing is Broken - by Dr James Mitchell, curated by The Economist Inte...James Mitchell
Commodity trading of cloud services would benefit both buyers and sellers, but the industry’s current pricing models are standing in the way, writes Dr James Mitchell, CEO of Strategic Blue, a financial cloud broker.
IBM's Smarter Computing initiative aims to help organizations remove IT silos and integrate resources to create a more flexible computing platform. Traditional IT management has become inefficient, while cloud computing allows organizations to optimize resources across business networks. The document discusses how cloud computing can connect internal and external resources to support innovation and transformation.
The document summarizes the results of a survey on cloud computing usage in the US Department of Defense (DoD). Over 200 organizations responded to an online survey, with 55% coming from industry and 28% from the federal government. Respondents indicated familiarity levels with cloud computing of 51% somewhat familiar, 30% not at all familiar, and 18% very familiar. The top concerns about cloud computing were security (54%) and budget/finance (12%). Interviews found that organizations like DISA, DIA and CENTCOM have implemented or are exploring cloud computing to improve efficiency and flexibility. The conclusion is that DoD adoption of cloud computing is increasing to address budget and data storage challenges, though security and contracting remain
The document discusses how IT managers are navigating increasing demands for mobile and visual collaboration tools from users. It provides insights into IT priorities and plans for unified communications (UC) investments. Key points include:
1) Improving collaboration is a top priority, but reducing costs is also important. The best practice is to design UC projects that drive both hard and soft cost savings.
2) Over half of IT buyers have plans to adopt UC, showing it is taking hold. Vendors now integrate voice, video, messaging and conferencing into consolidated suites.
3) Support for mobility is linked to simplifying and consolidating UC infrastructure to accommodate a range of endpoints. Most enterprises plan mobile UC applications to leverage
The Total Economic Impact of Equinix Interconnection SolutionsEquinix
This document summarizes a study commissioned by Equinix to analyze the total economic impact and potential return on investment from using Equinix interconnection solutions. It interviewed several Equinix customers and constructed a composite organization based on their experiences. The key findings were that the composite organization experienced a 300% return on investment over three years, with $17 million in net benefits from improved application performance, cost savings, and new revenue opportunities enabled by Equinix. The benefits outweighed the upfront and ongoing Equinix costs and internal implementation expenses.
This research report analyzed the popularity and future growth of cloud computing in Dubai based on a survey of people working in the region. The key findings were that 42% of sampled companies currently use cloud services, but 29% have no plans to adopt it in the future. This suggests that while cloud computing is used, its growth may be limited. The report also outlined advantages of cloud computing like cost efficiency, backup/recovery, and easy data access/management based on secondary sources.
Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets: A PerspectiveCognizant
For the financial services industry, the adoption of cloud services has become a viable business directive. As firms work to recoup their losses from the recent financial crisis, pay-as-you-go cloud services allow them to focus more on strategic, innovative and revenue-generating endeavors and less on managing routine IT activities and the supporting infrastructure.
The document summarizes several projected IT trends for 2008 based on a presentation given to a government organization. Some of the key trends discussed include increased focus on green IT to reduce carbon emissions, further adoption of unified communications and IP telephony, greater use of business process modeling and metadata management, and social software gaining more prominence in enterprises. Virtualization and cloud computing are also areas that will continue advancing to improve efficiency and flexibility.
A Framework for Cloud Computing Adoption in South African GovernmentGovCloud Network
Technology adoption is always a critical concern in organizations (private and public). South African government experienced this encounter when adopted Open Source Software (OSS) with the objective to reduce ICT services costs among others. The implementation of OSS in SA government has faced several challenges such as user resistance, human factor, support and funding. As a result of these challenges cost reduction has not been fully achieved. Cost reduction issue ultimately affects implementation of other government programmes such as those who yields job creation, better education, and improving health, etc. The potential alternative to address the same objective as aimed by OSS is Cloud Computing adoption. Cloud Computing promise to offer the SA government more advantages OSS. This study explore the feasibility of Cloud Computing adoption as an alternative to enable cost reduction, effectiveness and efficient of IT services in SA government as was aimed by OSS initiative.
1) The survey found that financial services firms are adopting cloud technologies faster than other industries, with almost half already using private clouds.
2) Financial services firms see cloud adoption not just as a new IT delivery method, but as a key enabler for business model innovation and new revenue streams.
3) The survey identified workloads that are well-suited for financial services cloud projects, including ERP applications, desktops, help desks, and data analytics in private clouds, and conferencing, communications, and storage in public clouds.
Building Innovative Industry Solutions for System zdkang
This document summarizes a presentation about using System z for smarter computing. It discusses how System z can help organizations reduce IT costs across various industries by up to 56% while improving capabilities. Examples are given of companies leveraging System z to deliver new innovations in areas like transportation, banking, and technology. Industry frameworks are presented as the foundation of IBM's industry solutions, with System z playing a key role in supporting workloads like core banking, payments, and risk management.
Capgemini ses - smart grid operational services- utility mobile it adoption...Gord Reynolds
The document discusses the benefits and reasons for utility companies to adopt mobile solutions. Key points:
1) Utility companies face challenges like aging infrastructure, workforce, and stricter regulations, which increases the need for mobile technologies to improve productivity, decision making, and operational efficiency.
2) Mobile technologies allow field workers to access enterprise systems remotely, complete tasks faster, and exchange information in real-time, reducing costs and cycle times.
3) Implementing mobile solutions can streamline operations, improve asset management, customer service, and employee satisfaction for utility companies. Selecting the right mobile applications tailored to their industry needs allows utilities to address challenges and maximize their existing investments in back-end systems.
The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
ENTSO-E Draft Network Code for Operational Securitydavidtrebolle
- The draft Network Code on Operational Security lacks harmonization and leaves too much autonomy to individual TSOs, which could undermine security of supply across Europe and is inconsistent with the target model of an integrated EU electricity market.
- The code lacks clear and precise parameters and guidelines for TSO actions, using vague terms like "sufficient" instead of defined limits. This could result in unjustified actions by TSOs and loss of generation capacity.
- The code does not sufficiently consider the impact on electricity markets or refer clearly to other related framework guidelines and network codes on issues like balancing and capacity allocation. There is a need for greater coherence and consistency across codes.
Is ‘Enterprise Mobility’ The Way Forward For Enterprises? Part I: Findings an...IJERA Editor
Attracted by the benefits offered by mobility technologies directly relating to cost savings and improved productivity, enterprises are keen to adopt BYOD models; however, without proper feasibility studies and mobility policies in place, BYOD will not be able to generate the desired results. The commercialization of technology or BYOD is rapidly transforming the enterprise mobility landscape and changing the way that organizations conduct business. However, the adoption of this concept enables enterprises to devise stringent and precise mobility policies to avoid any security and privacy issues.
The document discusses the differences between a "good enough network" and an "enterprise next-generation network". A good enough network focuses only on initial capital costs while an enterprise next-generation network takes a strategic approach considering total cost of ownership, business capabilities, and future needs. Building a network based only on low costs can increase costs over time and limit an organization's ability to adapt. The document recommends considering total cost of ownership, future requirements, and business value when making network investments.
This document discusses using soft computing techniques to evaluate coordination in supply chains. It proposes a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) model to measure the extent of coordination (EC) based on four coordination mechanisms: contracts, information sharing, information technology, and joint decision making. The EC is calculated as a weighted sum of the crisp scores of the four mechanisms, where the weights are determined from pairwise comparisons in the AHP. The model provides a way to quantitatively assess coordination across a supply chain and analyze different coordination scenarios. It is demonstrated through a numerical example involving order quantities and performance measures at different supply chain levels.
The document discusses how enterprises are increasingly pursuing interconnection strategies to drive revenue growth in today's digital economy. It finds that the number of interconnected enterprises is expected to more than double by 2017. Interconnection provides quantifiable benefits like increased revenue opportunities and cost savings, with over 1/3 of surveyed companies reporting over $10 million in value from interconnection solutions. However, enterprises face challenges in adapting old IT architectures to support new growth strategies that rely heavily on interconnection across multiple locations and clouds. Direct, secure interconnection is presented as a solution to address issues like high latency, systems uptime, and cybersecurity risks in a way that public internet connections cannot.
Printing the Future: From Prototype to ProductionCognizant
Additive manufacturing (AM) such as 3-D printing heralds a new industrial revolution. We offer a framework for analyzing capabilities and implementing AM technologies to help you smoothly move from prototyping to volume production.
Booz Allen Hamilton offers an integrated suite of cloud capabilities, deep subject matter expertise, and unparalleled hands-on experience with a broad range of cloud technology products.
This document discusses cloud computing, including its benefits and risks for businesses. Cloud computing provides shared IT resources over the internet on-demand, allowing businesses to avoid large upfront costs. It can increase efficiency and scalability while reducing costs. However, it also presents security risks to sensitive data if responsibilities between clients and providers are not clear or if standards lack. When selecting a cloud provider, businesses should carefully consider the provider's security controls, access management, legal policies for data storage, and ability to exit the agreement if needed. Overall, cloud computing offers a potentially cost-effective way to access computing resources but also requires managing risks to data security and privacy.
Cloud Pricing is Broken - by Dr James Mitchell, curated by The Economist Inte...James Mitchell
Commodity trading of cloud services would benefit both buyers and sellers, but the industry’s current pricing models are standing in the way, writes Dr James Mitchell, CEO of Strategic Blue, a financial cloud broker.
IBM's Smarter Computing initiative aims to help organizations remove IT silos and integrate resources to create a more flexible computing platform. Traditional IT management has become inefficient, while cloud computing allows organizations to optimize resources across business networks. The document discusses how cloud computing can connect internal and external resources to support innovation and transformation.
The document summarizes the results of a survey on cloud computing usage in the US Department of Defense (DoD). Over 200 organizations responded to an online survey, with 55% coming from industry and 28% from the federal government. Respondents indicated familiarity levels with cloud computing of 51% somewhat familiar, 30% not at all familiar, and 18% very familiar. The top concerns about cloud computing were security (54%) and budget/finance (12%). Interviews found that organizations like DISA, DIA and CENTCOM have implemented or are exploring cloud computing to improve efficiency and flexibility. The conclusion is that DoD adoption of cloud computing is increasing to address budget and data storage challenges, though security and contracting remain
Pricing Models for Cloud Computing Services, a SurveyEditor IJCATR
Recently, citizens and companies can access utility computing services by using Cloud Computing. These services such as
infrastructures, platforms and applications could be accessed on-demand whenever it is needed. In Cloud Computing, different types of
resources would be required to provide services, but the demands such as requests rates and user's requirements of these services and
the cost of the required resources are continuously varying. Therefore, Service Level Agreements would be needed to guarantee the
service's prices and the offered Quality of Services which are always dependable and interrelated to guarantee revenues maximization
for cloud providers as well as improve customers' satisfaction level. Cloud consumers are always searching for a cloud provider who
provides good service with the least price, so Cloud provider should use advanced technologies and frameworks to increase QoS, and
decrease cost. This paper provides a survey on cloud pricing models and analyzes the recent and relevant research in this field.
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
North Bridge and Wikibon, announced the results of its sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, which analyzes trends in cloud computing, adoption, use and challenges on a yearly basis. The study provides the broadest and deepest exploration of cloud in the industry with 53 leading cloud companies participating as collaborators. This year’s survey received 1,351 responses, a record-breaking number, representing a 60/40 balance of user/vendor perspectives spanning senior executives to practitioners across all industry sectors such as Technology, F.I.R.E., Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, Professional Services and Transportation.
According to Wikibon’s July 2016 report based on market conditions and recent public cloud revenue results of Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM; public cloud spending is expected to accelerate rapidly, growing from $75B in 2015 to $522B by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate of 19%. Within each public cloud segment continued rapid growth rates are also expected during this period: SaaS (19% CAGR), PaaS (33% CAGR), and IaaS (18% CAGR). Wikibon estimates that by 2026, cloud will account for nearly 50% of spending related to enterprise hardware, software, and outsourcing services.
Cloud Strategy
Based on our survey, while slightly less than 50% of all companies either have a cloud first or cloud only strategy; some form of cloud strategy is pervasive among all with 90% of companies surveyed reporting that they use it in some way.
A new finding this year is the fact that a surprisingly high number, 42%, of companies surveyed derive 50% or more of their business through cloud-based applications. In fact, a whopping 79.9% of the companies surveyed were getting some revenue from the cloud. This speaks to the digital transformation occurring across many industries and how many are looking to not only move more quickly with the cloud but profit from it as well.
Read more: http://www.northbridge.com/2016-future-cloud-computing-survey
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey on cloud adoption trends:
- Cloud adoption is growing significantly, with over 60% of businesses using public cloud, 71% using private cloud, and 55% using hybrid cloud. Adoption of all cloud models is expected to continue growing in the next 18 months.
- Businesses are moving more workloads to the cloud, with the average expected to increase from 29% currently to 54% in the next two years. Cloud budgets are also increasing as a percentage of IT budgets.
- Over half of businesses now consider cloud essential to their business. Successful cloud adopters rely heavily on third-party experts for developing and implementing cloud strategies.
- Line of business decision
Is Hybrid Cloud becoming the default?
If you are a CIO, CTO, Head of Technology, CEO, CFO or any interest in Cloud Infrastructure you have to see this report, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Nutanix
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 110 cloud computing implementation projects conducted by IBM. Key findings include:
1) Primary motivations for cloud implementations were IT efficiencies, ease of use consumer interfaces, and new charging models, while security concerns, pricing strategies, complexity, lack of standardization, and unclear value propositions were biggest inhibitors.
2) Integrated vendor offerings and ongoing support were in high demand. Service design was the most important ITIL discipline.
3) Current cloud usage focused on development/test and non-critical workloads, but respondents expected to deploy clouds across all workloads in two years. There was a 30/70 split between public and private clouds currently.
The document summarizes the key findings from a survey of 110 cloud computing implementation projects:
1) Primary motivations for cloud adoption were IT efficiencies, easy consumer interfaces, and new charging models, while security concerns, pricing strategies, complexity, rapid technology changes, lack of standardization, and unclear value propositions inhibited adoption.
2) Integrated vendor offerings and ongoing support were in high demand. Service design was the most used ITIL discipline currently but image management and security management are expected to grow in importance.
3) While development/test workloads currently dominate, respondents expect critical production workloads to be common in clouds within two years, and public cloud use to double with decreased internal use.
IBM Relay 2015: Cloud is All About the Customer IBM
Debuting new research data, Forrester's John Rymer discusses the rapid growth of "customer-centric" workloads in the cloud and the challenges many organizations have faced with private cloud.
Learn more by visiting our Bluemix Hybrid page: http://ibm.co/1PKN23h
Speaker: John Rymer (Analyst, Forrester)
Economist Intelligence Unit: Preparing for Next-Generation CloudHitachi Vantara
Preparing for next-generation cloud: Lessons learned and insights shared is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research programme, sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems. In this report, the EIU looks at companies’ experiences with cloud adoption and assesses whether the technology has lived up to expectations. Where the cloud has fallen short of expectations, we set out to understand why. In cases of seamless implementation, we gather best practices from firms using the cloud successfully.
Cloud computing offers several advantages over traditional in-house IT solutions. It allows companies to cut costs, improve business operations, and gain access to resources without large capital investments. Cloud computing provides scalable, virtual computing resources on demand via the internet. This addresses issues many companies face with traditional outsourcing like lack of transparency, control, and inefficient processes. It allows flexible, collaborative development and testing without security or governance concerns.
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
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1. IBM Academy of Technology
Thought Leadership White Paper
October 2010
Cloud computing insights from
110 implementation projects
IBM Academy of Technology Survey
2. 2 Cloud computing insights from 110 implementation projects
Contents
2 Executive summary
2 Introduction and methodology
4 How are clouds used?
5 How are clouds implemented?
6 What are the challenges?
8 What are the benefits?
9 Outlook and trends
10 Summary
12 For more information
Executive summary
Over the past several years, IBM has gained valuable experi-
ence implementing cloud solutions within our clients’ envi-
ronments and within IBM. Now, as the cloud computing
market matures, it is time to begin capturing the knowledge
we have gained through these implementations. While cloud
adoption frameworks were developed early on to predict what
customers might do with cloud, we believe enough implemen-
tations exist to validate those predictions and to recalibrate
where necessary. This white paper from the leadership of the
IBM Academy of Technology represents the findings from
110 case studies of cloud computing implementations in a
survey conducted in August 2010.
The case studies are mainly from mature markets and mainly
from companies with more than 5,000 employees. With the
exception of the chemical and petroleum industry and indus-
trial products, virtually every industry is represented. The
banking, government, telecom, insurance and financial mar-
kets industries represent over half of the case studies.
In brief, our survey findings show that:
● IT efficiencies, consumer interfaces featuring ease of use,
and new charging models are the primary motivations for
client cloud implementations.
● Conversely, security concerns, pricing strategies, system
complexity, rapid technology advancements of cloud capabil-
ities, gaps in standardization and a lack of clear value propo-
sitions are seen as the biggest inhibitors to cloud computing.
● Integrated vendor offerings combined with ongoing support
(applying best practices) are in high demand.
● Service design is the most popular IT Infrastructure
Library® (ITIL®) discipline, but other categories like
image management and security management are expected
to become critical.
● While noncritical workloads like development and test
dominate cloud usage today, the survey participants believe
that noncritical as well as critical production workloads will
be implemented on cloud in two years’ time.
● There is currently a 30 percent/70 percent split between
public and private cloud engagements; however, over the
next two years, respondents see the use of data and informa-
tion produced by cloud customers more than doubling, with
a corresponding decrease in exclusive internal use.
This paper examines our survey findings: where clients are
with cloud computing, what challenges they face, how they are
benefiting from their existing implementations and where they
expect to be in two years’ time.
Introduction and methodology
To obtain our results, the IBM Academy of Technology
defined a series of questions and sent them to IBM technical
employees with client-facing roles, most of whom are IT
architects. The responders, who span the range of IBM busi-
ness units, including services, software, systems technology,
and research and development, then solicited feedback from
their cloud computing clients. In most cases, the feedback is
from primarily large clients. While private clouds offering
3. IBM Academy of Technology 3
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Figure 1: Cloud adoption framework.
Industry profile
Number of residents
Travel & transportation
Telecom
Retail
Media & entertainment
Life sciences
Insurance
Industrial products
Healthcare
Government
General business
Financial markets
Energy & utilities
Electronics
Education
Consumer products
Computer services industry
Chemical & petroleum
Banking
Automotive
Aerospace & defense
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Figure 2: Industry profiles represented within the survey.
infrastructure and platform services in large environments
provided the majority of the input for this paper, it should be
noted that the cloud adoption framework predicts a second
large market segment at the other end of the spectrum, as
shown in Figure 1.
We should therefore anticipate larger numbers of small clients
purchasing business process as a service (BPaaS) and software
as a service (SaaS) via public clouds.
With the exception of the chemical and petroleum industry
and industrial products, virtually every industry is represented.
As Figure 2 illustrates, banking, government, telecom, insur-
ance and financial markets industries dominate with more than
50 percent of the sample.
Our survey questions focused on how our clients’ existing
cloud computing implementations are addressing specific
areas. These included:
● Overall cloud scenarios
● Cloud consumption model
● Cloud infrastructure
● Cloud service management
● Organizational and skill requirements and gaps
● Cloud security
● Cloud information management
We then asked the clients what they expect their answer to be
in two years. The next several sections of this paper discuss
our survey results in detail.
4. 4 Cloud computing insights from 110 implementation projects
How are clouds used?
Organizations today are implementing three primary delivery
models for cloud: private, public and hybrid. In private clouds,
IT activities or functions are provided “as a service,” over an
intranet, within the enterprise and behind the organization’s
firewall. In public clouds, IT activities or functions are pro-
vided “as a service” over the Internet. For hybrid clouds,
internal and external service delivery methods are integrated,
with activities or functions based on security requirements,
criticality architecture and other established policies. These
implementations can be undertaken for any number of rea-
sons, including a consumer interface featuring ease-of-use, IT
efficiencies and new charging models.
Cloud usage is currently dominated by development and test
as well as noncritical production workloads with 50 percent of
usage being for local pilots while only 20 percent of usage is
at the enterprise level. Clouds are mainly applied to loosely
coupled workloads and support content-centric workloads
focusing on internal IT infrastructure, application develop-
ment and test scenarios, and web infrastructure. This usage is
split between public and private cloud engagements with the
vast majority in private clouds: Nearly 70 percent of engage-
ments are private while only 30 percent are public with a
minimal usage of hybrid clouds.1
The 30/70 split between
public and private cloud engagements running today is due
primarily to two factors. First, the survey respondents reflect
primarily large environments and are most interested in inves-
tigating the potential benefits of cloud computing. If smaller
environments had been included, we believe the ratio would
be different. Second, since one of the primary inhibitors to
widespread adoption of cloud computing is security concerns,
private clouds provide a means to experiment with cloud
technology without exposing the firm to security concerns.
There are key differences in the services provided in the pri-
vate and public clouds. Public clouds are dominated by SaaS
followed by infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Private clouds
are dominated by IaaS followed by platform as a service
(PaaS), while BPaaS is only represented minimally in both.
Within our survey, the majority of clients began their cloud
projects with infrastructure (74 percent) and/or development
and test environments (69 percent), areas where they were
able to minimize the risk associated with this new delivery
method and optimize their return. Many clients (59 percent)
were also focused on web infrastructure specifically. However,
within two years, the picture changes dramatically, with the
belief that they will have cloud projects significantly deployed
across all workloads analyzed, including transaction process-
ing, high-performance computing, decision support and
analytics, business applications and collaborative computing.
This finding, demonstrated in Figure 3, indicates confidence
that anticipated values are being met, and, with experience
developed from these early projects, rapid expansion will be
possible.
Application development and test
Web infrastructure
IT infrastructure
Collaborative computing
Business apps
High performance computing
Decision support and analytics
Transaction processing
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Figure 3: Current and anticipated cloud deployments across workloads.
5. 5
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Processes
Tools
People
Information
Cloud
implementation
Figure 4: Cloud service management implementation framework.
How are clouds implemented?
Looking beyond motivation, the survey addressed clients’
scope and plans for cloud computing, focusing on the chosen
implementation approach, patterns and steps. The survey
shows that 49 percent of clients have defined their cloud
strategy, whereas the second half of our sample began cloud
projects without having defined their target state and cloud
road map. This finding is supported by the results of the
“scale of implementation” question, where 50 percent of proj-
ects today cover a pilot scope. Only 20 percent are targeted at
enterprisewide cloud deployment. A portion of our clients
started pilot projects to extract learning and experiences for a
cloud road map and strategy creation.
In parallel, the majority of the projects today are focused on
development and test and noncritical production workloads.
This step seems to be in preparation for testing management
capabilities and tools for critical production workloads.
These findings are similar to our findings in service-oriented
architecture (SOA) design and implementation, where best
practices recommend testing design decisions in proof-of-
concept and pilot implementations, as these decisions have
large, long-term impacts on enterprise and IT architecture. A
small, more affordable and quick test implementation can help
provide the information necessary to make overarching strate-
gic decisions.
Cloud service management implementation framework
The basis of a cloud implementation is a set of well-defined,
proven processes, illustrated in Figure 4. Vital to being able to
deliver, or even access, a cloud-based environment is service
management. ITIL V3 defines service management as “a set
of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to
customers in the form of (IT) services.”2
When examined at a
greater level of detail than the ITIL V3 definition, service
management comprises the whole of the governance,
processes, roles and responsibility definitions, tools for
automation, required information and best practices that inte-
grate and operate available resources to produce valued serv-
ices, and respond quickly to the needs of a business and its
customers—for both legacy and cloud environments. The
roles that execute the processes, the tool functions and the
associated information are all based upon the process design.
The survey produced several key findings related to this
framework:
Organizational change—Only 20 percent of projects report on
organizational changes already implemented, although we can
derive clear requirements for changes in IT organizations.
Two areas seem significant: corporate IT organizations are not
really managing the cloud implementation, operation of IT
technologies and process management. Especially in larger
organizations, organizations sourced their IT services through
external service providers due to the lack of speed of their
internal IT department to establish access to cloud services.
Second, organizational silos can be a significant inhibitor to
adoption, as silo thinking prevents overall process optimiza-
tion and automation.
6. 6 Cloud computing insights from 110 implementation projects
Processes and integration—About half of the projects started
without service management integration, which relates to the
nature of projects with regard to maturity, scale and criticality.
Public cloud projects typically reported lower levels of service
management integration compared to private cloud imple-
mentations. While with a public cloud, the assumption is that
the solution is based on integrated service management by the
cloud service provider, within private cloud environments,
service management integration is even more critical to
achieve cloud automation and cost targets. In addition, a level
of integration between public and the customer’s on-premises
infrastructure is required. This leads into the domain of
hybrid clouds, where application-level integration is required
when running both public, private and traditional infrastruc-
tures as well.
On a weighted average rating, the majority of the respondents
rated service design as the most important ITIL discipline fol-
lowed closely by service operation, service strategy, service
transition and service improvement.
Technology—Although standardization of technologies and
software stacks is one of the main drivers of cloud benefits,
39 percent of the projects lack technology standardization.
Approximately 53 percent of projects reported standardization
for some technologies. This is a surprising result in our survey
as the level of standardization for the services served by a pub-
lic cloud is high and defined by the cloud service provider. For
private cloud implementations, the level of standardization is
one of the main success factors.
As an additional note, there were no significant differences
across industries and geographies in the results from the sur-
vey questions for this section.
What are the challenges?
We found that for our surveyed clients, developing a strong
value proposition, plus funding, security and managing com-
plexity were the major barriers to getting started, as shown in
Figure 5 below.
Inhibitors to cloud computing
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Loss of internal control
Software licensing
Lack of skills
Market and technology immaturity
Reliability and high availability
Complexity
Funding
Lack of standardization
Lack of clear value proposition
Security
Figure 5: Inhibitors to cloud computing.
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Similar factors have been corroborated in many analyst
reports. For example, IDC reports that security concerns are
the most important fear among IT decision-makers for both
public and private cloud, especially public cloud. Other fac-
tors, such as lack of technology, maturity, lack of personnel
skill sets, organizational challenges and difficulty integrating
with existing infrastructure will likely decrease over time as
cloud success stories circulate.3
Security
Security is a critical issue largely in public or shared environ-
ments, where the cloud provider needs to make sure that data
privacy and compliance is guaranteed. Secure and efficient
data exchange across the enterprise and clouds, as well as
secure application connectivity are the major security con-
cerns. Image management is important both in private and
public clouds, as images are fast becoming the core object for
deployment in data centers as a way to bypass installation
problems. In this context, organizations need a way to
organize, secure, manage and deploy images to the various
virtualized platforms in a scalable manner. Once deployed,
organizations need a way to manage the virtual images, which
includes monitoring, updating, tracking, change management
and auditing.
The clients surveyed in our study are currently focused prima-
rily on implementing technologies to enable cloud functional-
ity in a private environment. By focusing first on private
clouds, these clients were able to overcome their security con-
cerns. As shown in Figure 6, the building blocks for a private
cloud include consolidation, virtualization, standardization and
automation, including self-service.
Self Service Virtualization
Business &
IT Alignment
Agility
Standardization
Service
Flexibility
Automation
Industry
Standards
Reduced
Cost
Optimized
Business
Figure 6: Building blocks for a private cloud.
Virtualization
While it was clear that virtualization was the first and largest
component of cloud computing implemented, it is harder for
clients to apply these technologies to other areas such as
network (18 percent), applications (18 percent) and desktop
(16 percent), and clients continue to see this as a challenge
over the next two years. While automatic provisioning has
been widely implemented in this client set, de-provisioning
resources and reassigning those resources to other projects is
more difficult, with other factors such as organization and
culture coming into play.
Standardization
When discussing clouds, you also need to talk about the abil-
ity to reduce variations in implementation patterns on the
cloud provider side, while at the same time keeping consumers
happy with a right-sized offering. Standardization of both
processes and all technical layers of the solution stack was
identified in the surveyed projects as a major challenge. For
example, despite the fact that a specific hypervisor often domi-
nates the pilot/departmental installations today (start simple),
clients anticipate a move toward a diverse set of virtual
machine standards for enterprise-level clouds before being
able to consolidate. On one hand, consumers expect their
favorite hypervisor technology to be supported in a first
production step; on the other hand, they want to migrate
as quickly as possible to a standard when they have seen the
benefits of cloud delivery and are looking for even higher
efficiency and reduced costs.
There are gaps in both industry-specific and IT standards that
make it more difficult to standardize and automate, which is
needed in order to reduce the complexity involved. Just as the
adoption of HTML as a standard language accelerated the
adoption and expansion of the Internet, cloud standards will
need to emerge to promote widespread adoption. In particu-
lar, the adoption of IT service level definition standards that
can be dynamically negotiated between consumer and
provider will be necessary before a true open cloud becomes
reality.
8. 8 Cloud computing insights from 110 implementation projects
Other
Highly scalable
Internet/web based
Consumer ease of
use, self service,
with rapid delivery
Pay-as-you-go
charging model
Highly virtualized
infrastructure
0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%
Figure 7: Benefits gained from cloud computing.
In addition, the standardization of hardware and operating
system/software stacks required in cloud environments needs
to be driven from development and test into production
environments.
Value proposition
The survey indicates that cloud computing value is best
achieved with a specific business goal in mind and tools are
available to assist with return on investment (ROI) and value
assessments. Multiple clients shared that the job of justifying a
cloud solution became much easier when focused on solving a
business need versus the benefits of reducing the cost of IT.
Complexity and integration
Clients are looking for cloud providers to assist them with
complexity and integration issues, as indicated when asked
what they would like to see in cloud computing. Outside of
price, almost all of the answers were in areas designed to
reduce the complexity to implement cloud, such as providing
additional pre-integrated offerings, improved functionality and
decreased complexity for current offerings, and improved flex-
ibility and integration techniques. The recognition is strong
that implementing cloud computing is a complex task, and
only 24 percent of current clients have implemented cloud in
an integrated fashion today.
What are the benefits?
Cloud computing is offering a wide range of benefits—from
high-resource utilization and flexibility to increased respon-
siveness. Approximately 80 percent of the clients are realizing
significant sharing of IT resources through a highly virtualized
infrastructure, and approximately 60 percent are achieving
ease-of-use through self-service with rapid delivery. This is the
case regardless of the industry or geography. For those clients
using public clouds as opposed to private clouds, ease of use is
higher at 85 percent, followed by 68 percent benefiting from
pay-as-you-go charging and 63 percent benefiting from
Internet/web-based clouds. Forty-seven percent of the public
cloud clients are benefiting from a highly virtualized infra-
structure. Figure 7 illustrates the results.
Several of the responders commented that their clients are
realizing benefits in the area of flexibility, such as by enabling
developers and testers to give up servers more readily when
they are finished with them as compared to “manual” server
builds, or through the ability to exploit services available on
the public/Internet cloud more rapidly, either singularly or in
combination.
Another group of clients is achieving benefits from cloud com-
puting in the area of storage and data, by replacing existing
on-premises storage or by providing storage and content man-
agement capabilities.
A promising benefit of cloud computing is in the area of ana-
lytics and sense-and-respond capabilities. A sense-and-respond
organization is one that recognizes change early and is able to
analyze and act in response to the change. An example of
sense-and-respond from our case studies is the ability of
clients to disrupt their competition by enabling a spectacular
jump in the amount and accuracy of available business infor-
mation, helping them to re-engineer their business and react
to individual customer situations in new ways.
9. 9
IBM Academy of Technology
Scale - Today Scale - Two years from now
Pilot
Departmental
Enterprise
Exclusive (public,but
closed community cloud)
Open (public)
Pilot
Departmental
Enterprise
Exclusive (public,but
closed community cloud)
Open (public)
Figure 8: Overall cloud scenarios.
Outlook and trends
The experiences of these implementation projects confirmed
commonly discussed challenges associated with cloud comput-
ing such as security, value proposition, funding and complex-
ity. However, it is important to note that these organizations
have found significant value as reflected in plans to expand
their use of cloud computing. There is also strong optimism
that within two years, the marketplace will have overcome
many of the issues faced today.
It is always useful to understand what motivated a major
endeavor in implementing new IT delivery methods in a large
enterprise context. We have discussed specific findings based
on today’s market maturity, the technology and available best
practices or methods, and the associated challenges. The next
natural step is to leverage the insights from the implementa-
tion projects to determine how the area will evolve so that you
might align it with specific planning horizons in your enter-
prise. The following section discusses survey questions based
on future trends. As previously mentioned, these predictions
are based on the assumption that security concerns, both real
and imagined, can be adequately addressed.
As Figure 8 shows, clients strongly believe they will reverse
the 80/20 ratio between departmental/pilot efforts today and
enterprise/production readiness within two years. In other
words, clouds will become mainstream.
Charging models
Flexible pricing or charging models ranked lower compared
to the typical market hype in cloud publications. We therefore
analyzed the feedback we received on the importance of future
pay-as-you-go capabilities, and we see a difference between
private cloud implementations versus public cloud implemen-
tations. Public clouds appear to have already a good propor-
tion of pay-as-you-go charging models compared to private
clouds, but this will not always be the case. Participants
strongly believe that pay-as-you-go models will also have
to be implemented in private cloud settings between the IT
organization and lines of business. This finding suggests that
we will see an interesting challenge in integrating public and
new private cloud charging schemes in hybrid cloud scenarios.
Another clear survey trend is based on the observation that
we will see flexible charging concepts to address sustainable
value-for-money relationships between cloud providers and
consumers.
Data management
In terms of additional content provided by a cloud two years
from now, we saw two major evolutions: (1) Decision support
and analytics services had the highest jump in adoption, and
(2) The estimate of the number of consumers contributing to
the creation of new information through the cloud is dou-
bling. Cloud becomes a new platform for data management
and creation, especially in private cloud scenarios where our
survey showed an even higher adoption of analytic cloud serv-
ices (three times). Over the next two years, respondents see
the use of data and information produced by cloud customers
more than doubling with a corresponding decrease in exclu-
sive internal use.
10. 10 Cloud computing insights from 110 implementation projects
Service management
If cloud services become as critical as indicated in the next two
years, we need to look at the maturity status and evolution of
service management tools. While many clients consider their
existing tool landscape as slightly better equipped to cope with
the new challenges ahead, we see at least a doubling of the
need to have better automation, control and visualization serv-
ice management tooling implemented by 2012. Service secu-
rity and the ability to control data/information access and
usage is a must today and will be followed by an increased
focus on identity management in 2012. (An exception to that
general finding applies to public clouds, where compliance was
ranked higher.)
Organizations from these cloud implementation projects
have realized that significant advantages do take place with
automation and self service, and most have started down this
path. While today there is a focus on the traditional ITIL
disciplines—with service design being the most popular—
there is a growing need for new service management disci-
plines to address the challenges and opportunities in cloud
computing, including image management and security. Both
of these disciplines are included in IBM’s extensions to ITIL,
the IBM Process Reference Model for IT™ (PRM-IT) and
the IBM Component Business Model™ for the business of IT
(CBM-BoIT).
Implementing tools and processes associated with the service
management disciplines does have the potential to reduce the
complexity involved by a lot, and within two years, almost
75 percent of these clients plan to have new disciplines of
service management integrated in their cloud solutions. These
new disciplines will need to automate many of the tasks and
processes involved in deploying IT resources, and they will
need to be integrated into traditional service management
tasks such as capacity planning and change management.
Summary
After evaluating the analysis of 110 implementation projects,
we identified five key conclusions:
● Clients are finding value today either implementing charac-
teristics of cloud or finding workloads that are best suited
for public and private cloud, and in the process, they are
gaining knowledge of what’s needed for the future.
● Clients using cloud understand the importance of standardi-
zation and integration for a successful and more rapid adop-
tion of cloud computing.
● Clients have also learned they will need to make organiza-
tional and process changes and reach a higher maturity level
of integrated service management to get the full value of
cloud computing.
● Clients believe many of today’s current obstacles such as
security, value and funding will be overcome within two
years.
● Clients plan to increase dramatically their use of cloud com-
puting, both to incorporate more mission-critical applica-
tions and to expand their use of public cloud services.
With the knowledge and insights captured through these
implementations, IBM can offer a full spectrum of assistance,
from business consulting to implementing an operational
cloud computing environment. A deep understanding of
requirements is key to creating lasting value, and IBM has
extensive experience performing this type of analysis as part of
our capability development process to drive new products and
services.