At Oracle’s Cloud Computing Forum this week, Phil Dawson, a vice president of Gartner Research, indicated that adopting a ‘private’ cloud approach could provide a means of “cleaning up spilt milk” by enabling IT to clarify which services and what level of resources should be provided in order to meet user consumption requirements.
“Cloud will be evolutionary not revolutionary. You have to plan for it today, which means introducing a private cloud if you can sort out your IT internally and your relationship with the business and vendors,” he said.
Simply adding more silos means that “you’ll only be agile in that silo” and the introduction of new services will remain slow. Moving to a “horizontal” IT services-based model, however, will be the key to corporate agility and it is only then that CIOs should explore how to employ public Cloud services in anger. “You’ve got to sort out your internal IT and then move external,” said Dawson.
But such internal services will need to be “integrateable” with other vendors’ services as in the future “public and private Clouds won’t exist separately” as they do today, he added. Instead, “clients will select and deselect [public and private Cloud] services and the question of sourcing will be dealt with separately”.
Such a situation will see public Cloud services being integrated with and built on top of both private and other public Cloud services, creating more of an “overdrafting, hybrid and federated” effect. There will be no one-size fits all in terms of service level agreements, however, with each service requiring its own arrangement based on cost and availability,
But warns Dawson: “You have to drive the horse yourself and manage the interface. The ‘uber-management’ has to be kept in-house. So don’t expect external companies to sort out your IT – it’s very simple.”
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