Comments on: Cloud Computing in the Enterprise – Private (Internal) Clouds

By: David Baptiste

David Baptiste — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:11:40 +0000

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By: vittorioviarengo

vittorioviarengo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:58:12 +0000

I don't have a direct example for you but we recently did a survey of around 100 customers that are planning or building building an internal cloud and 71% of them claim to have a standard service definition in place and 48% said they have standard SLAs as well.

By: John Treadway

John Treadway — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:07:16 +0000

Vittorio – sorry for the delayed response. You are quite right on that front. Private clouds – running internally or in someone else's data center – need not only SLAs, but service governance built in (my app is getting slow, automatically scale it… etc.). I have not seen a good instance of this yet – have you?

By: vittorioviarengo

vittorioviarengo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:17:43 +0000

Hi John,

Great post. What about service definition and service level agreement? Doesn't the internal cloud need a way to define what the services available through the portal are and what is the SLA on them?

Ciao

Vittorio

By: timwessels

timwessels — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:05:28 +0000

Hi John,
Saw you at CloudCamp Boston this past July. Enjoyed the event. You and
Dave did a great job.

2009 is turning out to be one of the worst ever years for IT investment.
Maybe large corporations will actually have access to capital and credit to
build their private clouds, but small and medium sized businesses won't. I
doubt that they will be able to borrow or obtain credit for the next round
of server upgrades and licenses for proprietary software upgrades.

Many small businesses I work with rely on credit and credit cards to operate
their businesses. The credit card companies have already reduced the number
of accounts by 15% and they are decreasing credit lines for everyone else
based on their exposure to defaults, which are now running at roughly 10%.
The more unemployment increases the worse it will get for small and medium
sized businesses. IT in small and medium sized businesses is not immune to
these changes.

The economy has entered a deflationary cycle that could last for a decade.
There is way too much private and public debt and not enough income to
service it. I suspect most small and medium sized businesses will finance
their IT operations out of accounts receivable or barter. Cloud-based IT
services are what they will turn to because they are all opex and no capex.

The economy is in much worse shape than most people are willing to admit.
Public cloud computing is one thing that will help many small and medium
sized businesses slash IT costs and hopefully survive.

tim

By: John Treadway

John Treadway — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:23 +0000

Ramesh – thanks for the comment. I have been a SW vendor guy on and off since 1991. Lock-in is how you create value for your shareholders, so don't be surprised that this would be the case for VMware. If people just used ESX there would be little lock-in. A VM is a VM (almost). But by wrapping a lot of technology around this that only works with your virtualization layer, you are becoming more and more embedded in the IT process. With each new function you deliver, and customers adopt, the price for switching to Hyper-V, KVM, Xen etc. gets higher. That's lock-in. When you're the 800lb gorilla like VMware, lock-in is bad for the overall market and drives up the cost of ownership for users.

By: John Treadway

John Treadway — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:33:20 +0000

Tim –
There may be deficits in some functionality, and IT is not afraid of making investments when needed. There are just many cases where a private cloud will be preferred over a public cloud for the near future.

John

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