Not one CIO or CTO is avoiding the thought of cloud adoption – plain truth. There could be some who do not have a Business-IT posture to adopt cloud early but nevertheless are sitting on a transformation blueprint that is made with cloud and just cloud in the mind.
Among the thought leaders who have already made decisions thru various stages of pilots and use-case testing are finalizing their partners. Few of them have chosen to go the public cloud way and few with private cloud.
Some quick definitions –
Public Cloud: off-premise end-to-end virtualized multi tenant environment with compute, storage, database, network and applications metered on pay as you use/grow. Businesses completely avoid CapEx but may have to take important governance steps.
Examples are – Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Amazon EC2. The industry has come to an agreement and labelled services either as IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. The adoption numbers are already staggering. Salesforce.com has more user seats on cloud than all in-premise licenses by competition put together. A survey pointed, 57% of companies making new technology investments have decided to adopt cloud.
Private Cloud: same as above but in-premise of the Business and CapEx intensive.
For many it would be a blended approach. It is not so tough to go public cloud but certainly lot tougher to build a private cloud. Tough because one has to make a decision -
—–If it is using a stack of tools that are open core, open source and commodity hardware.
—–Or partly proprietary and vendor dependent solution
People (read technology strategist) have survived this predicament even during the older days when they had to take decision on corporate messaging, for example; this time again they will move on taking a decision that is most appropriate (as believed by them). During their previous decisions they would have switched from one to other but have survived a bad decision and learnt enough.
The chance that one may survive with a flawed decision around cloud strategy is desolate.
Fact however is Businesses will question failure of any IT project in coming months if that weren’t built on the cloud. Business leader would be heard saying – “I simply fail to understand why our IT brains did not consider cloud and have ended up building this costly monolith eating into my profitability”.
The opposite too is quite possible.
I may not be surprised if ever heard a Business leader saying – “this project failed because you experimented with my money, blindly believed in the hype called cloud.”
Important point – there is tremendous opportunity for cloud seekers, cloud providers and cloud developers. As developer and provider, we will manage transformation and promise cloud-scale.
Cheers! Uttam.
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