A pathway into the cloud

By MARTIN YATES
September 6, 2011, 11:42am
NEW YORK — Before spacecraft are blasted off into space, the astronauts that travel in them, mission-control personnel, and other key staff undergo specialised education and training, launch procedures are verified and rehearsed, and policies are drawn up so that everyone is clear about their respective roles, especially in exigencies. Organisations wanting to move into the cloud computing space and technology need to employ similar rigour.
Although cloud service technology is easily available and is a potential business game-changer, it is best for enterprises to not plunge straight into it without a well thought out plan. First, be clear on your business strategy and what the specific our drivers for change are. In the current climate many are prioritising on growing the business revenue, reducing operational costs and importantly winning new customers, correct use of cloud computing services may well be able support in these business goals.
Understanding what cloud computing is all about will help organisations to identify the potential business value in what seems a myriad of choices.
What is cloud computing?
In its purest form cloud computing is simply a style of computing delivery and not a technology as it is sometimes perceived. In cloud computing resources such as compute power, storage assets, applications etc. are virtually pooled and delivered as services, which are shared by many users and organisations from a cloud provider.
This form of economical sharing of IT resources is often referred to as the multi-tenancy model. Cloud providers build large datacentres employing multi-tenancy infrastructure with massive scaling capability, this is what gives cloud computing customers significant cost savings for services, in many ways it is akin to taking a public transport service to the office rather than your more costly private sedan.
Paying only for what services you use in cloud computing is what often sets traditional IT outsourcing apart when it comes to contracts and pricing.
In cloud when a user needs IT resources, he/she provisions them from the available resource pool, uses them as long as needed and, typically, pays for them based on usage and not in form of a fixed charge. When the resources are no longer needed, they are returned to the pool, where they can be used by other organisations and users.
It’s important to understand that such sharing while highly cost effective often hits emotive boundaries on security and data protections concerns. Despite great efforts are being made to assure customers of public cloud security many organisations seek the benefits of the cloud delivery model without using shared public services. The logical solution to those who have security concerns in sharing spawned the now popular term “private cloud”. Here organisations duplicate the efficiency of the public cloud model, but build the cloud inside their protected premises sharing resources only within the organisation.
The private cloud is akin to having a company owned employee bus for better sharing cost efficiencies without having the security concerns real or not about public passengers boarding your bus service. Many organisations are figuring out, whether it makes sense for them to use public or private service; many feel there might be a hybrid approach as the best solution.
Commonly cloud services are delivered in three configurations: Software as a Service (SaaS), in which users have access to shared commodity-like applications hosted on an internal or external cloud service provider’s infrastructure; Platform as a Service (PaaS), essentially software and services running above the server operating system such as development tools, databases, middleware, authentication and security software; and finally Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which enables organisations to self-provision base operating systems such as Windows and Linux pay as you go.
Using IaaS eliminates the long waiting times such as purchase and installation of physical servers and has a powerful business case for many organisations. An essential characteristic of cloud computing is called “elasticity.”
The service elasticity makes it easy to provision up to hundreds of services rapidly and the when the service capacity is no longer needed it is just as simple and fast to sun down those services. For organisations using IaaS no further cost burden is generally incurred after switching off, in the same way a light bulb after switching off incurs no electricity cost. This cloud elasticity is an essential component needed for another cost saving feature and functionality known as cloud-bursting discussed later.
The cloud computing connectivity model breaks down into four types, private, public, hybrid and community cloud. Private cloud as previously mentioned is installed on business premises running on the internal corporate networks and while using the multi-tenancy concept it is an exclusive resource for the internal organisation. Public cloud service unlike private cloud is accessible from routable world-wide internet connections , the infrastructure and services are shared with potentially thousands of pay-as-you-use customers.
Hybrid cloud is a carefully selected blend of public and private services; powerful use cases in hybrid occur in functionality such as “cloud bursting”. Cloud bursting can be enabled where internal company IT capacity is exceeded in peak utilisation periods and excess workloads are simply transferred into an external cloud provider’s capacity to be processed. Cloud bursting can avoid service degradation in choppy unpredictable IT demand scenarios as well as predictable peak periods. Cloud bursting is touted as one of the great operational saving potentials of cloud computing for many business situations, in short never pay for what you don’t need all the time.
Finally the less well known “community cloud” is a collection of clouds between organisations where a level of trust or grouping exists between the entities. Typically governments and scientific communities might employ such configurations for resource sharing while retaining certain elements of independence of each government or scientific research body.
Besides providing better alignment of cloud computing with the business goals, the preparatory effort prior to cloud entry also gives an organisation the opportunity to improve its process framework. Invariably, internal business processes related to SLA, service management, incident management, disaster recovery, and so on will need to be tweaked, especially for public cloud utilisation.
Laying the virtual foundation for private cloud and self-service
In planning the journey to a private cloud service implementation a well architected combination of server, network, software and storage virtualisation layer is an essential design consideration for the IT strategy team.
Effective cloud management is critical for resilient and performance orientated cloud service environments. These environments should include for example stringent automated IT operational security controls, effective monitoring and alerting with high availability failover capabilities in place. Another key element of cloud computing is consumer cloud “self-service”, where business departments could avoid the complexity of dealing with the IT department and haggling over cost, time to market and service transparency discussions.
In the world of cloud computing savvy business departments needing resources simply browse and select from the IT department service catalogue, configure, add to the shopping cart and click to agree to pay a monthly fee.
Yates is Practice Director for Cloud Computing at Dell Asia Pacific Japan and Chairman for Cloud Computing for Singapore Computer Society. Dell solutions for cloud computing include consulting, implementation and support services, cloud-in-a-box, cloud security, private cloud management, and intercloud connection solutions.
Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/333233/a-pathway-cloud

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