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White Paper: An Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risks of Cloud Computing

July 19, 2009 in Basic Views, CloudViews, IT Departments, Interoperability, News, Technical by Maria Spínola | 1 comment

Cloud Computing is quite possibly the hottest, most discussed and often misunderstood concept in Information Technology (IT) today.

In short, Cloud Computing proposes to transform the way IT it’s deployed and managed, promising reduced implementation, maintenance costs and complexity, while accelerating innovation, providing faster timeto-market, and the ability to scale high-performance applications and infrastructures on demand.

But business managers know that in spite of the benefits of every new technology/business model there are also risks and issues (like for example: trust, loss of privacy, regulatory violation, data replication, coherency and erosion of integrity, application sprawl and dependencies, etc.) and that rushing things when it comes to Cloud Computing can be a very bad decision, but blowing off Cloud Computing all together because you think you can secure your own stuff better than a service provider or because many claims, made about Cloud Computing, have lead you to the point of “irrational exuberance” and unrealistic expectations, isn’t smart, either.

The goal of this White Paper is to provide a realistic perspective of the possibilities, benefits and risks of Cloud Computing; what to look for, what to avoid, and also some tips and best practices on implementation, architecture and vendor management strategies. It is important to consider all those aspects before you decide either to move (but without putting the carriage before the horse) or not to move your systems, applications, and/or data to to the “Cloud”, in a “hype free” approach.

Click here to download the White Paper (or click on the image at left side)

Thanks and please let me know how I can help you.

P.S. And of course your comments, feedback’s and thoughts are always welcome.

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Cloud Computing: The “low cost” arrived to IT business?

May 31, 2009 in CloudViews, User Experiences, short-thoughts by Maria Spínola | No comments

The low cost products and services are here, either at supermarkets, airlines, holidays, automobiles, hotels, food-chains, etc., and we use them because, sometimes, we really don’t need all the features of the non low cost products and services.

In my opinion, the Cloud Computing, in a way, is the “low cost” for IT business.

Let’s take the example of Traditional CRM software versus CRM as SaaS:

  • Traditional CRM software : They earned a bad reputation by bringing with it integration and customization demands that easily spiraled out-of-control. So as a result, there was the feeling that CRM software was a huge head-heck and a huge waste of money with no practical results.

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  • CRM as SaaS: what have SaaS vendors done? they provide just-enough customization in a very easy way, and they shifted integration responsibility from the clients. So as a result CRM as SaaS is simple to use, economic and with practical results.

Or the example of infrastructure such as Amazon’s S3 and SimpleDB versus conventional enterprise counterparts (distributed file systems and relational databases) : they can’t be compared to their conventional, however they offer the basic features that everyone needs  (and also one huge advantage: vast scalability)

In other words, we can say that the use of the 80/20 rule is actually a common theme across cloud technology, and what might appear to be a limitation is actually a secret to success: it gives customers what they actually need in a very easy and cheaper way.

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EaaS: Everything as a Service – The next big buzzword?

March 20, 2009 in Basic Views, CloudViews, Interoperability by pcalcada | No comments

When we try to use or promote technologies or technological paradigms we must start by digging up all the information about it. This is almost mandatory and it’s the basis of all the work done by the majority of us. The information obtained must help create a clear and broad view about the new field of work. And consequently, the resulting view would help create solutions, products or promotional work.

This is fundamental and without it you won’t be able to create solutions with the most basic feature – interoperability. Without it, we (IT members, entrepreneurs, etc) will also loose the ability to vertically scale up our ideas in our company, or even to be successful when trying to obtain clients, financing, etc. Furthermore, we end up loosing the ability to talk with each other.
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