Digital transformation of business and production processes is the goal of the economy. The drivers of this are competition from the large number of start-ups, as well as industry pressure and admonishing media reports. But earlier, all should be clear that the way to digitize only the clean use of cloud computing is.
Suppose you were a medium-sized manufacturing companies and now want to systematically digitize even if were ready enough investment resources, the solution would probably not optimal. The reason for this is that the desired systems with the required performance characteristics are simply not yet available as a true cloud solution.
Software companies and system providers have long not yet made their programs cloud-enabled. There are several reasons. First, the software needs to be fully adjusted with the aim of multi-tenant architecture. Secondly, was and is the systems business is a very good business because this business model also brings with it forced loyal customers. And thirdly, there is a great fear of a sales dip. Therefore, it is only possible in the present situation, systematically digitize. As a result, give logical, strategic process models, such as those described by Crisp Research will be presented.
The digitization food chain
IaaS providers are at the beginning of the food chain. You need to provide the services in order to offer the software companies or ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) a good platform for scaling their self-service services. The ISV must their business models and their software turn inside out to offer their software as a service. Simultaneously, the business development needs to be prepared for changes in buying and usage behavior of the customers. Only after a variety of software solutions - especially industry programs - are brushed on Cloud, the middle class can implement digitization. These are the first two terms in the digitization food chain.
Beyond cloud readiness
The questions for which IaaS provider to the ISV to decide can be answered only with difficulty. We have the cloud Team spontaneously tried to put together an overview of IaaS providers. There I turned out to be difficult. Coming from the PaaS - - Finally, an increasing number of system houses offer IaaS solutions. In addition, the business directories are hopelessly out of date, currently "2008 WZ" (Business Directory 2008) the Federal Statistical Office is working with. That's more than embarrassing.
Search planned followed by benchmarking
So we decided to open up her own this year with a search and subsequent benchmarking. But already there is a choice of providers, which have recognized the signs of the times and invest accordingly. Now it is time to find from these providers the "right" partner. Major market checks deal primarily with international vendors such as AWS, Google, Microsoft & Co., but not with regional providers.
Siting of the IaaS provider decisive
If one seeks the maximum privacy, you should now opt for the IaaS provider. The secure area of justice of the Federal Data Protection Act applies if the following criteria for the cloud providers 'yes' answer: location, corporate headquarters and the majority shareholder of the provider of data centers are in Germany or Austria. Only when these three criteria are met without exception, the unsolicited transmission of data can be prevented to third parties (keyword "Patriot Act"). As an orientation provides the independent association cloud EcoSystem eV corresponding certifications for vendors. Furthermore offer contracts that are based on the law, considerable advantages for medium-sized companies.
Privacy and Security - the difference is in the details
Privacy and data security are often lumped together. The Notice is based on the BDSG, the data protection will be determined by technical and organizational measures, for example, the data access control or precautionary measures. A sophisticated data security concept with good encryption technology is as important as the data protection.
The recent hacker attack on the French channel TV5, which led to a total breakdown of the hours of TV broadcasting, has shown that the combination of Internet and real production systems lurking dangers. But even the use of encryption systems, one should avoid products from USA, UK, China, Russia and so on. Using the example of the USA is known that the encryption provider their keys (not only) have to deliver to the Department of Homeland Security. In many countries providers, this is not the case.
After we talked about the security aspects, now raises the question of the technical integration. The migration is achieved with different cloud systems. While HP, IBM or Rackspace use the open standard OpenStack, try Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Cloud Engine (GCE) or Windows Azure to enforce their own systems on the market. The difference lies in the dependence, in which I would like to go as a system, but also in the way of marketing. Multi-tenancy and APIs in the software architecture of the ISV should be completed with the platform of the IaaS provider.
On par with the Great
How can assert a "Schengen IaaS" against the overwhelming international competition? The trick lies in the quality and in the eye level. The quality can be marketed perfectly through cooperation with quality initiatives and the merger in industry groups. So it's not absolutely necessary to build its own capacity, as well as in the cloud marketing the principle of digitization applies: Rent and parts is more effective than making itself. An effective audit clients, such as the cloud Certificate of Cloud EcoSystem eV is a good way to attract software customers. Even this benefit then of this certification standard and can offer its customers pre-tested trust and a transparent SLA (Service Level Agreement) offer.
To find the perfect IaaS provider of software houses, so privacy and security are initially considered. Important to the successful partnership with IaaS provider, then has the choice of technical platform and finally the opening to the consumer market through effective public certifications and marketing collaborations.
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