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A Few Stories of Cloud Demining in the Last Year
2017-01-13
Looking back to your Cloud service experience in 2016, what difference would you expect to see in the year 2017?
Recently, Mr. Wu Shan, a reporter from ZOL.com.cn, shared a video under the title of ’10 Reasons for Giving up Cloud Computing’. 10 reasons ……. the journey of your Cloud experience actually goes like this.
Those reasons, expressed with great wits, are rather amusing.
Reason 1: The Cloud computing is useable, but just useable;
Imagine, after I invested all the little infrastructure money I have into a Cloud, when I called the Cloud for technical support and was told that the technical support was only available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday, what would I feel? I’d be stunned. Very soon, I think I would come to the decision to give up the Cloud for good. Hosting service is way better to meet my data center needs. There are now more and more data centers being built around the country. The jobs that data center staff on night shift handles are interesting and complicated. The jobs that the technical support staff in a data center supporting server hosting services do are rather ordinary and dull. That’s why I say the Cloud technical support is limited and not for every company.
Reason 2: Cloud Service turned everything into a mess, in discordance with auditing and regulatory rules.
When trying to select a technical roadmap for your go-Cloud plan, you’d find that, among others, the hardest part lies in infrastructure preparation. The Cloud should be ‘a part of your data infrastructure’. But to many potential users, this is not the most important thing to consider. The most important thing is: it brings about more licensing cost, more training expenditure, more disaster recovery cost, more HR cost, and more files, in a word, more mess. You’d see the complexity keeps rising, and, at a certain point, you’d probably be forced to restructure the whole architecture.
Reason 3: Cloud vendors frequently change business models and deprive users of the right to say no.
No Cloud vendor could resist the strong urge to change a business model according to how many users it attracts and/or how much income it creates. It’s necessary to catch up with the latest moves of your Cloud vendors. The problem is that, since today’s Cloud vendors are so big, it usually takes you a week to take part in their industrial events, like an exhibition, to understand the direction they are going. This is troublesome. And the bigger problem is that, once your Cloud vendor decided to change something, like a management policy or a business model, because of the ties between a Cloud and a user, the only thing left to the user is to accept it submissively.
It may be impossible to avoid all bad shocks, but it’s definitely possible that some users turned on a Cloud in a wrong way.
In general, in the year of 2017, most enterprise users would continue using private Clouds and public Clouds at the same time. According to applicable laws, regulations and privacy policies, data should be stored locally should remain so. The Cloud Technology Partners called such choice as the pragmatic mixed Clouds’.
According to a survey that North Bridge conducted on 1,351 enterprise users in 2016, 47% of them uses mixed Clouds, 30% strongly favors public Clouds, and 23% likes private Clouds. And, it’s anticipated that, most likely, the figures wouldn’t change much in 2017. Therefore, no matter what Cloud you are in favor of, public Cloud or private Cloud, it’s wise for all Cloud users to invest more in improving mixed Clouds.
‘Suit is best.’ The indicators, however pretty the look like, if it is disengaged with enterprise users needs and/or offers single performance advantage, should be seen as a part of evaluation and something for reference only. The statistics of North Bridge’s Cloud Computing Enterprise User Survey revealed that, to enterprise users, the importance of Lock-down (30%) is only second to Security (38.6%) and higher than all other factors like Privacy, Complexity, Regulation and Compliance, and so on.
Consequently, it’s anticipated that in 2017, enterprise users would continue sticking to their multiple Cloud strategy, trying to avoid the lock-down by public Clouds, and picking up solutions from different Cloud service providers and looking for the optimized portfolio of services. In short, the Multi-Cloud deployment would become the new normal. Mr. Julian White, Vice President of Security Marketing of Azure, said in an article predicting the Cloud development in 2016, “If you trust one Cloud supplier to meet all needs, you are disconnecting from reality and luring the arrogant attitude out of your suppler.”
Where does the right way to turn on Cloud begin?
It begins with finding a service provider who really understands the needs of enterprise users;
SDS has already worked out a wonderful Mixed Cloud and demined all possible troubles to meet our users’ needs with the greatest possible performance and support. There is no “No” to our users, only “Yes”.
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