This confuses me heavily. “Rather than adopting the CC, which means that consumers shouldn’t care about who’s delivering stuff, you’d rather get locked down and still be called “internal cloud”. So the first paragraph is all crap. It makes no sense at all given that folks barely understand what Clouds are. More confusing can be filled in with heavy doses to go ahead with internal clouds while anything that’s internal is internal, call it Internal Ocean, Internal Clout..take a pick.
How about this: Adopt Internal Clouds with ZERO financial changes!
Meaning do nothing and keep your internal siloed business ops running as usual since that is sort-of an internal cloud, right. It has humans that ensure the good and healthy regulated checks where software driven malfunction [call it failed or aggressive VMotion or live migration, tossing your apps all over the data center] could create hiccups in your user-response and productivity!
Obviously before you start taking offense in my above statement, all I want to say is that its prudent to first understand well enough why SaaS vendors and Cloud vendors like Amazon are thriving where others are finding [rather quickly] that they’re embedded in a stockpile of siloed, in-house, too-expensive and locked internal cloudwares; what Cloud Computing is; what it can be, and then start working towards building it.
I’m not the only one who’s heavily confused:
Adding to the confusion, according to John Sloan, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group, is that VMware’s cloud computing initiative is actually just the utility computing concept in disguise.
“What you’re seeing is a rebranding of utility infrastructure or virtual infrastructure that they’re starting to call internal or private clouds,” Sloan said. “I’m not saying that’s wrong, because external cloud providers are doing the same sort of thing. There is a lot of commonality between an internal virtual infrastructure and an external cloud.
Get this straight:
- If you don’t get LCO, you’re dead in this market [See my BrightTALK FPI talk on the 9th of Feb, where we'll declare the winners and whiners]
- If you distort the reality and you aren’t Steve Jobs, you’d be asking for trouble
- Cloud Computing is all about commoditization
- Pricey stuff and big enterprises may be all ears to Internal Clouds talk but they are experiencing dramatic “mark-to-market” reality check
I’ve warned you now.
Rather than going to multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers to host your applications, VMware Inc. wants you to build a private, cloud-like infrastructure in your own data centre. But with the in-house skills and costs required to make it happen, virtualization experts argue that VMware’s vision is far away from becoming a reality.
Last September, the virtualization giant unveiled Virtual Datacenter OS, a set of services that allows IT managers to “pool all types of hardware resources – servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud,” according to the company. This will enable users to abstract the underlining physical infrastructure from the applications and give VMware customers the ability to offer SaaS on their own premise.
*yawn*
Been there, said that… but it’s great to see others catching on
Repeat after me: “evolution of virtualisation is not cloud computing”
I’ve been perhaps the most vocal opponent of this carry on (someone has to be), but it doesn’t matter *where* the stuff is – the whole point is that you as the user don’t have to care.
EC2-like virtualisation rigs are useful for small and large businesses alike, just don’t call it cloud.
Sam