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that inadvertently, you are defining what
doesn’t go across to the cloud.
Greater alignment between IT and
business units
This still needs to be top of the agenda.
Leaders need to make better business
decisions about data storage, especially
where demand for ‘always on’ service
delivery is high.
Jon Nicholas, Cloud and Storage
Infrastructure Manager at Pulsant, said: “As
the business grows, we expect to be given
targets of our own within the IT team in
order to maintain a system that enables the
company to do more and offer more. Part
of this will include looking at how we can do
more with the leading-edge technologies
already in place.”
Choosing between on-premises and
public clouds should not be driven by hype,
but rather what will enable the business
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CHOOSING
BETWEEN ON-
PREMISES AND
PUBLIC CLOUDS
SHOULD NOT BE
DRIVEN BY HYPE.
units at a cost point that is acceptable
for the long-term viability of the business
and after examining the choices between
funding alternatives (CapEx vs OpEx, pay-
per-use, etc.)
One thing that made the decision a bit
easier for IT leaders last year was the
introduction of pay-as-you-grow business
models for private clouds. However, these
usually came as OpEx only, so this just
replaces one problem (time to market) with
another (increase in cost).
This year, we will see more customers asking
their vendors for CapEx-based pay-as-you-
grow solutions, and these will solve this issue,
leaving only the agility challenge.
To solve the agility challenge, we will need
to change the way customers interact
with the vendors they rely on to power
their private cloud. We will need to see
customers not only asking their vendors
if they support the right type of API for
automation but rather asking them to be
enablers for IT transformation, bringing
enterprise grade tools that deliver DevOps
like agility without the need for each
customer to develop these capabilities
themselves. In this new era, customers
will choose the technology not only by
performance and cost etc, but also by what
changes the technology allows them to
make in their private cloud to better align it
to the new needs of the BUs. n
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