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Organisational culture is less of a barrier for Private Cloud implementation
AS private cloud solutions are increasingly used to improve resource utilisation in the datacentre, understanding and acceptance of the technology by executives has significantly improved. The number of companies intending to deploy a private cloud has risen to one-third from a steady twenty-eight per cent in previous years, and with this organisational culture has steadily reduced in importance as a barrier for uptake.
Having been the biggest inhibiting factor to adoption in 2009 (thirty-seven per cent), organisational culture is now less of a barrier to adoption consistently falling by ten per cent year- over-year to only twenty-six per cent in 2010 and seventeen per cent in 2011. This finding is the result of the fourth annual benchmark survey by Platform Computing of delegates at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’11.
NetApp enables Thomson
Reuters ‘transformation’ NetApp Storage is the foundation for game-changing legal search solution. Information is the backbone of business success. Without information, organisations stall and innovative ideas don’t see the light of day. Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information, is focused on one goal – to put the right information into the right hands to help clients produce amazing results. Delivering on this promise requires an IT infrastructure that can support game-changing products and services.
Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw legal research service stores more than 5 billion documents and is used by approximately 98% of the largest law firms in the United States. Even though Westlaw was considered the preferred legal research service, Thomson Reuters recently embarked on a journey to take WestlawNext, which they launched in 2010, to even greater heights. The goal was to create an innovative, intuitive research and workflow tool that would make legal research as easy as Internet search. To realize this goal, Thomson Reuters needed to enhance its existing private and public cloud infrastructure to support WestlawNext. With a storage infrastructure built on NetApp, WestlawNext not only became a reality but set a new standard for online professional search. To date, more than 20,000 law firms, corporate law departments, and government customers have adopted WestlawNext, and it was named the New Product of the Year for 2011 by the American Association of Law Libraries.
As a leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, Platform Computing has been tracking adoption of private clouds and the drivers for uptake. Its findings complement a recent IDC report that anticipates the server cloud market is set to enjoy frenetic growth until 2015, with server unit shipments for private cloud units expected to see a compound annual growth rate of twenty two per cent to reach 570,000 by 2015.
Following the changing trends identified by Platform Computing over the last few years, this is no surprise. Serious consideration is now being given to the upfront cost of implementing a private cloud solution as executives increasingly look at the practical implications of cloud adoption. Respondents who see upfront cost as the greatest barrier to private cloud have tripled from six to twenty-one per cent in the last twelve months. In addition: £ The number of companies planning to deploy private cloud has grown from 28 per cent in previous years to one-third
£ Organisational culture has been reduced as a barrier for adoption by 10 per cent year-over-year
“We consider NetApp to be a key strategic IT partner, and the choice to build on the NetApp storage foundation was clear,” said Rick King, Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters Professional Division. “WestlawNext is a revolutionary product that required a storage foundation that would deliver the dynamic search capabilities and unique customer experience we were looking for. Working with NetApp enabled us to fundamentally transform how legal research is conducted and provide the legal industry with the most powerful and innovative product of its kind in the market.”
£ Concerns about security have remained roughly the same, rising from 26 to 29 per cent in the last year as executives more seriously consider the impact of cloud deployment
£ Executives are less worried about the complexity of managing a private cloud (reduced from 25 per cent to 19 per cent), which indicates an increased familiarity with cloud solutions for business
£ Application software licensing remains less of a consideration, with a minimal increase from 12 per cent to 14 per cent
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