Virtualisation & Cloud Computing :
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The advent of 21st century storage
TECHNOL
Those who embrace the fact that their networks must evolve into an asset
OGY
that can rapidly adapt to the innovation spawned by virtualisation and cloud
computing in order to capitalise and monetise new services will succeed.
Those who do not are bound to face difficulties. By Vinay Rathore, Senior
Director, Product Marketing, Ciena.
C
L
OUD COMPUTING
The telecoms industry, like any Software and data storage is, available and can offer
other, sees hype technologies simply, being taken out of the services which can be
come and go at a sometimes office environment and accessed from any part of the
alarming rate. The trick for outsourced to third party globe – with the cloud acting
industry commentators, providers with much more as a single point of access. By
analysts and development powerful equipment and the and large, cloud computing
teams alike seems to be the expertise to ensure these infrastructure is currently
ability to spot which of these systems run to their optimum. made up of reliable services
technologies will live beyond being delivered over next-
the hype and go on to garner Virtualisation has something generation data-centres based
mass adoption and of an older pedigree than on computing and storage
widespread deployment. It is cloud computing, and it has virtualisation technologies.
still a little too early to be been in use in the ICT industry
absolutely certain, but the for some years now. As is Take up of both cloud
related technologies of apparent from the term, computing and virtualisation is
virtualisation and cloud virtualisation involves the growing as evidenced by the
computing look like they very creation of a virtual (rather range of cloud computing
well may have what it take to than physical) version of an IT services being offered by
gain critical mass. So what application or hardware device vendors, service providers and
exactly do these technologies (for example an operating content providers. Recent
entail? system or a server). While examples include Amazon’s S3
there are many applications service and Elastic Compute
The idea of cloud computing that can find a home in Cloud Cloud or EC2 and AT&T’s
in essence comes from the computing, enterprise storage Synaptic Hosting service –
concept of ‘clouds’ associated is particularly well suited. where a complete, managed IT
with all networks, including Since most Small and Medium ecosystem is offered to
the Internet, combined with Enterprises (SMEs) would businesses for them to load
powerful computer technology. prefer to outsource most of and run their applications. The
The umbrella term of cloud their ICT anyway, business technology is being driven
computing includes Software- continuity and regulatory both by traditional vendors
as-a-Service (SaaS), Web 2.0 implications would lead them such as IBM, Intel and HP as
and other technology trends to prioritise storage as one of well as more disruptive ‘new
within its remit. The common the primary applications. comers’ such as Google and
trait with all these sub- Yahoo. The later have been
technologies is that they rely With both the Internet and successful in bringing the
on the network cloud to private networks at users’ concept of SaaS to a mass
satisfy some of the computing disposal, the necessary market audience through
requirements of end users. infrastructure is readily online applications such as
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