The industry roils with definitions and explanations of cloud. These definitions come from product vendors cloud-washing their products, cloud providers positioning their cloud infrastructure, IT teams attempting to cloud-paint their efforts in virtualization, and even from consultants writing articles like this. This article will examine the essence of cloud and will provide a solid working foundation against which progress toward the cloud can be objectively assessed. The Cloud Deployment Model Cloud computing is essentially a […]
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Virtualization – not quite the nirvana it was promised to be. We expected exponentially better efficiency, higher availability and huge savings for IT budgets. However, now that the honeymoon is over, most organizations feel slighted. Not only have the promised benefits never been realized, but IT organizations also have been saddled with ever-increasing user demand and out-of-control costs – not to mention virtual sprawl, vendor lock-in and high provisioning effort. With all of these issues, […]
One of the issues we focus on in conversations with companies evaluating moving to cloud computing is the importance — and challenge — of capacity planning in a cloud environment. The bottom line is that cloud computing is going to make capacity planning much more difficult for CIOs who intend to maintain all or most of their company’s computing in internal data centers. Moreover, utilization becomes a highly risk-associated topic as utilization risk is shifted […]