Event Recap
RECAP | ROUNDTABLE | Cost Considerations: Moving to the Cloud
Uptime Institute’s September 5th Inside Track Roundtable, Cost Considerations: Moving to the Cloud, featured a wide-ranging discussion in which participants talked about their organization’s plans for future cloud use.
An early informal poll of the participants revealed that almost all had already deployed at least some cloud assets, but most characterized these deployments as tests or proofs of concept (POC) of non-critical systems. The remaining participants had more extensive deployments. However, all the participants agreed that their organizations were seeking ways to deploy more applications in the cloud. As a result, they had a great deal in common.
Organizations, the participants agreed, were examining a move to the cloud because of anticipated cost savings, to achieve scalability and to improve innovation. One participant said these features would enable his company to extend financial services to customers in a new way.
Uptime Institute Research Director Dr. Rabih Bashroush remarked that cloud deployments were not a cure-all. He said that anticipated cost savings sometimes seemed difficult to achieve, with some organizations even considering moving applications back to enterprise data centers. One participant said that similar cost savings might be achieved by moving to a managed or hosted environment.
Dr. Bashroush noted that cloud deployments should be driven by a business case. He also pointed out that industry was already beginning to adapt this perspective, in moving from a cloud first to a cloud appropriate attitude.
This new attitude toward the cloud should reduce riskier cloud deployments, as it required organizations to understand the true costs of moving to the cloud, including re-architecting applications, and understanding the relevant security and privacy issues and regulations. He also warned about the dangers of lock in, pointing out in a discussion about picking vendors that a bankruptcy could jeopardize a company’s access to its own data and put it at risk of violating security regulations.
Dr. Bashroush noted that under these circumstances the cloud-appropriate attitude could help more organizations succeed at deploying applications to the cloud so that cost savings would be realized.
An early informal poll of the participants revealed that almost all had already deployed at least some cloud assets, but most characterized these deployments as tests or proofs of concept (POC) of non-critical systems. The remaining participants had more extensive deployments. However, all the participants agreed that their organizations were seeking ways to deploy more applications in the cloud. As a result, they had a great deal in common.
Organizations, the participants agreed, were examining a move to the cloud because of anticipated cost savings, to achieve scalability and to improve innovation. One participant said these features would enable his company to extend financial services to customers in a new way.
Uptime Institute Research Director Dr. Rabih Bashroush remarked that cloud deployments were not a cure-all. He said that anticipated cost savings sometimes seemed difficult to achieve, with some organizations even considering moving applications back to enterprise data centers. One participant said that similar cost savings might be achieved by moving to a managed or hosted environment.
Dr. Bashroush noted that cloud deployments should be driven by a business case. He also pointed out that industry was already beginning to adapt this perspective, in moving from a cloud first to a cloud appropriate attitude.
This new attitude toward the cloud should reduce riskier cloud deployments, as it required organizations to understand the true costs of moving to the cloud, including re-architecting applications, and understanding the relevant security and privacy issues and regulations. He also warned about the dangers of lock in, pointing out in a discussion about picking vendors that a bankruptcy could jeopardize a company’s access to its own data and put it at risk of violating security regulations.
Dr. Bashroush noted that under these circumstances the cloud-appropriate attitude could help more organizations succeed at deploying applications to the cloud so that cost savings would be realized.
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