Enterprise Cloud Computing – Redesign your IT Infrastructure
The speed at which global markets are changing and the challenges being faced by businesses, are causing them to rethink their business strategies and react quickly to stay ahead in the field. IT services are critical to the way any businesses get work done. Too often maintenance and upgrades consume the allocated resources and do not leave enough in the budget to apply technology in a way that focuses on changing business goals.
The days when organizations carefully developed vast fully equipped data centers consisting of hardware and software are fast coming to an end. Now, transformation and downsizing are gaining momentum in the form of something called ‘cloud computing.’
The adoption rate of cloud computing is soaring. Today, 30% of respondents to a survey conducted by CIO Research said they are already using cloud computing. By 2012, 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for cloud computing services, and 30% will pay for a cloud computing infrastructure, according to Gartner Research. Adopting cloud services helps enterprises move away from investing in rigid, legacy systems and get flexible, easy to use tools to move their business needs forward.
Simply stated, ‘enterprise cloud’ is cloud computing behind the security of your firewall that uses internet based cloud technologies specifically focused on your business environment computing needs. Cloud Infrastructure Services, a portfolio of services are designed specially to bring the benefits of cloud flexibility to enterprise users. It combines the power and flexibility of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with the expertise, security and availability that large organizations with critical computing needs demand.
The enterprise cloud gives customers a separate, dedicated pool of computing resources in which to create and manage their own virtual servers. Once you have moved applications to the cloud, you can manage and control firewall resources, load balancers and switches across the different cloud environments.
Enterprise cloud computing offers rapid and flexible provisioning of computing power, storage, software and security services to meet your mission critical IT demands. It is easy to deploy and implement and can make your technology setting an agile, service based system. Cloud based services are highly scalable and based on resources; enterprise cloud allows precise and dynamic allocation of resources over a network on a need basis.
Increasing efficiency while introducing new solutions to improve business and curtailing the high cost of IT, are the major challenges that enterprises face. They must keep costs down to stay competitive and at the same time need to innovate so that they can offer new products and services to their customers.
Enterprise cloud gives your business agility, survivability, sustainability and security and changes many facets of enterprise computing acquisition, operations and governance, though not always for the better. These features are:
- Increased Operational Efficiency and Reduced Capital Expenditures – The cost of infrastructure investments rests primarily on the cloud computing provider. IaaS increases your hardware efficiency by allowing you to scale instantly based on your application or site load. Conversely, it allows you to maintain maximum cost efficiencies since you only pay for what you use.
- Access Anytime, Anywhere – With your business network on the cloud, accessibility is no longer an issue, especially for the mobile workforce or people working at remote sites. You can access documents, presentations and emails from any computer that has a network.
- Scalability: You can easily reduce and increase your network capacity and features in accordance with your needs. With cloud based services you can customize your network to the size of your business.
- Maintenance: Updates are installed automatically and the maintenance is done by the service provider.
- Collaboration: You have heard the phrase, “two heads are better than one.” Well with new cloud based collaboration tools everyone in your office will be able to contribute to the development of projects. With notes, announcements, documents, graphs, and presentations in the cloud, the workplace becomes more connected, efficient and productive.
For flawless provisioning and efficient usage, enterprises should identify workload/applications and create a road map to redesign their IT infrastructure for the private cloud.
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