With Amazon’s EC2, Google’s AppEngine, and now Microsoft’s Azure, cloud computing looks a lot less like some catch-all concept in the distance and more like a very real architecture that your data center has a good chance of being connected to in the near future.
If that happens, more than the technology must change. The IT organization, and how IT works with business units, must adapt as well, or companies won’t get all they want from cloud computing. Putting part of the IT workload into the cloud will require some different management approaches, and different IT skills, from what’s grown up in the traditional data center.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/virtualization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221901198
Cloud’s still emerging, but greater use will bring changes, just as outsourcing forced new strategies and skills.
With Amazon’s EC2, Google’s AppEngine, and now Microsoft’s Azure, cloud computing looks a lot less like some catch-all concept in the distance and more like a very real architecture that your data center has a good chance of being connected to in the near future.
If that happens, more than the technology must change. The IT organization, and how IT works with business units, must adapt as well, or companies won’t get all they want from cloud computing. Putting part of the IT workload into the cloud will require some different management approaches, and different IT skills, from what’s grown up in the traditional data center.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/virtualization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221901198
Cloud’s still emerging, but greater use will bring changes, just as outsourcing forced new strategies and skills.