Cloud computing has taken off as a trend in enterprise
IT, but analysts say proper governance is necessary for companies to realize
the full benefits of on-demand systems.
New, relatively unmanaged and untamed technologies
always draw the same analogy: the wild, Wild West. That's what was said about
the Internet 15 years ago and several subsets of computing technology, which
tend to be unregulated when they first emerge. So is the same situation with
the Cloud.
As firms move from hosted, dedicated servers to the
looser virtualized environment of Cloud computing, that old wild, wild west
feeling is starting to come back, and if people are going to feel comfortable
using cloud services, they must be rules and governance set down for proper administration.
So says IT research firm Ovum in a report by Enterprise IT Planet.
Cloud computing has already established itself as the
next disruptive technology in the enterprise, but IT governance in the next few
years will be vital as companies feel their way through the transition away
from on-site software applications to cloud-based options, independent research
firm Ovum said in its latest report.
The benefits of the Cloud -- lower costs, a smaller
data-center footprint and immediate access to multiple applications for a
distributed, international workforce with minimal fuss -- are also some things
that can expose companies to degrees of risk that simply weren't possible
during the heyday of locally deployed software installations.
By Larry Barrett, June 17, 2010
Cloud computing is here. Running applications on
machines in an Internet-accessible data center can bring plenty of advantages.
Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For
on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system,
some way to store data, and perhaps more. Applications running in the cloud
need a similar foundation. The goal of Microsoft’s Windows Azure is to provide
this. Part of the larger Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure is a platform
for running Windows applications and storing data in the cloud.
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which
dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service
over the Internet. To deploy a new solution, most of your time and energy is
spent on defining the right infrastructure, hardware and software, to put
together to create that solution, Cloud computing allows people to share
resources to solve new problems. Cloud computing users can avoid capital
expenditure (CapEx) on hardware, software, and services when they pay a
provider only for what they use.
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