Sunday, September 6, 2015

Datacenter: Great break, promising future?


The Hybrid Cloud is a reality in many companies. But why more and more CIOs opt for a hybrid environment? An article by Erich Vogel, Cloud Leader, Computacenter.


This survey has drawn in recent months large sections of our industry: "The Hybrid Cloud 2014" by IDC. The result is an illuminating and for the other at the same time for the unexpected: a further 27 % plan used or implemented in the past two years public cloud services More than half of the 2014 surveyed by IDC organizations their introduction. IDC also observed that the "early adopters" with a pure private cloud approach much more pull now Hosted private clouds or public cloud services into consideration.

Analysts summarize: The Hybrid Cloud is already a reality in many companies. The Reasons? In times of "d’ conomy!" - As this year's CeBIT, the upheavals of society addressed by IT - must be adapted to individual than ever a company's processes. The CIOs kept their data and applications to date preferably in its own data center, especially large enterprises build their infrastructure consistently. They consolidate, virtualize, rely on automated operation and invest in convergent structures.


1) Opportunities for the SMEs:

Who the quarterly financial statements attended a medium-sized companies, is whether the workloads often encounter a completely overloaded server landscape; and who stops by at an automotive supplier whose proprietary IT has to manage terabytes of data to modules, components and assemblies for vehicles, will understand quickly why a hybrid cloud strategy it represents significant added value: The "Just-in-Time / Just-in-Sequence "principle, according to which the order of spare parts takes place a few hours before production of a model enables the IT not only in the automotive industry in an extreme situation. The covering of periodic peak loads require an absolutely trouble-free operation of the application landscape that often sometimes like a jungle appears in decentralized corporate structures.

CIOs treads, given the combination of cost pressure from the finance department and growing demands of users in the provision of IT services within the meaning of "Capacity on Demand" is increasingly the way in the hybrid cloud. After all, can use a hybrid cloud model resources are used in its own data center and it can be accessed at the same time flexible at peak times on the computing power of the cloud provider - that its own infrastructure needs to be upgraded without.

2.) Relief for DevOps teams:

DevOps teams (Development) operation has set already on Public- and hybrid cloud services. The simple reason: As innovation cycles and time-to-market is becoming ever shorter, rapid programming and deployment of software is hard to pull off in such a traditional development environment. The need to develop a new app for the smartphone within a few days or weeks and available for download, is a daily scenario for programmers.

With a hybrid cloud platform was able to test a new application already and use, even if it is not fully developed. A distinct advantage when you consider that software development normally runs away in several phases over several environments, many resources eats and is extremely tedious. These challenging conditions make development and testing environments the ideal case for external IaaS, for investment in additional resources, which only temporarily are used, are obsolete. A hybrid cloud that combines public and private cloud, security, scalability and flexibility at the same time delivers.

3.) Safety and reliability Disaster Recovery

Last but not least: Many organizations have today still do not have adequate disaster recovery infrastructure. Like a good insurance should disaster recovery (DR) protection class offer at minimal cost and little effort. But too often we read: too expensive, too complicated, too unpopular.

Since it is a very uncomfortable truth that, according to the US "National Archives and Records Administration" 93 % of the companies whose data center ten days or longer turned out, had to file for bankruptcy within one year. A truth that every CIO should call to action. Because in the context of business continuity, the hybrid cloud a large proportion of the necessary infrastructure constitute: DR plans can simplify and automate significantly. Complexity and unpredictability associated with traditional DR management solutions, drop off at Disaster Recovery as a Service. In a hybrid cloud environment also falls off the time-consuming exchange of DR protocols between primary and secondary backup location.

In the future, various IT delivery models will be decisive, according to IDC. Because with Big Data, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 is the IT before the biggest turning point in its history. The rules for business success are changing. We observe just how the unlimited mobility catapulted through smartphones, wearables and Co. entire industries into a new era.

Whether taxi apps, mobile payment services, courier services or room intermediaries - hybrid cloud environments make it possible to plan marketing and sales activities targeted to identify opportunities and speedy implementation. "The Internet will disappear", recently said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt at the World Economic Forum 2015 - and says so but the exact opposite: According to current predictions more than 55 billion devices will be online by 2020, which is eight times more devices than today the world's population. The classic Internet term will disappear, the Internet of Things is an omnipresent part of our existence ... and with it, the hybrid cloud.



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