{"id":34,"date":"2010-09-27T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/?p=34"},"modified":"2010-09-27T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:14:10","slug":"showstoppers-of-cloud-computing-and-how-to-overcome-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/blog\/2010\/09\/showstoppers-of-cloud-computing-and-how-to-overcome-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Showstoppers of Cloud Computing &#8211; and how to overcome them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herbjorn.wordpress.com\/author\/herbjorn\/\">Herbjorn <\/a>just posted this nice\u00a0blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/herbjorn.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/27\/the-top-3-showstoppers-of-cloud-computing-and-an-unexpected-one\/\">the top 3 showstoppers of cloud computing &#8211; and an unexpected one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Agree!<\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0&#8211; there are additional ways of gaining trust &#8211; testing the water via carrying out <a href=\"http:\/\/apsec2010.com\/highlights.asp?Tutorials\">cloud platform evaluations<\/a>; doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/soasymposium.com\/agenda2010.php#cloud_computing_experiences\">proof of concept <\/a>of deploying a slice of an existing business application, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nicta.com.au\/research\/research_publications?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGcHVibGljYXRpb25zLmluc2lkZS5uaWN0YS5jb20uYXUlMkZzZWFyY2glMkZzaG93JTNGaWQlM0QzOTk4JmFsbD0x\">see what you learn in dimensions around performance<\/a>, security, licensing,\u00a0maintainability etc\u00a0; gaining better control in terms of forecasting <a href=\"http:\/\/events.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au\/Events.aspx?eventid=2188\">how much cloud resource you will need, and how much it will cost<\/a>; and of course, as Herbjorn mentioned, rigorous contractual conversations with your favourite cloud vendor.<\/p>\n<p>I would also expand on the &#8216;challenge of CapEx &#8211; to &#8211; OpEx&#8217;, to also include enterprise organisations that already has multi-year outsourcing arrangements&#8230; the adoption of cloud represents a radical shift in an enterprise&#8217;s IT process, particularly in the management, governance and service delivery aspects, not to mention the\u00a0expected changes in people&#8217;s roles and responsibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The big prize will go to the\u00a0innovative System Integrators that work out a way to continual provide enterprise strength IT services, while incorporating effective and efficient wrapper\u00a0support services over some attractive public IaaS offerings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbjorn just posted this nice\u00a0blog on the top 3 showstoppers of cloud computing &#8211; and an unexpected one. Agree! Now\u00a0&#8211; there are additional ways of gaining trust &#8211; testing the water via carrying out cloud platform evaluations; doing a proof of concept of deploying a slice of an existing business application, and see what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cloud-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/annaliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}