Special report Cloud Computing
in the area of Cloud computing, and the be able to build applications that we couldn’t
adoption by the vendor community of these Kaj Van De Loo, SAP have built before. Over the next few years we
standards is important. The real premise of the Cloud is this infinitely should see enterprise applications come out
and elastically scalable computer storage that are radically different from what we are
Simon Black, Sage Pay resource infrastructure. Most developers over used to because they will take advantage of
For small businesses I’m not sure whether the past few generations of developers have this much more highly scalable resource.
there is going to be an iPad moment, but if you been trained to deal with finite computer
look back in 12 months’ time you’ll probably resources and finite storage. What we see
see that the people setting up these smaller now is that some of the consumer-based
businesses will have increasingly wanted to websites – particularly the larger ones such as
use web-based applications from trusted Face Book and Google – have come up with
providers, and will have learned more from the new database technologies that are open
success of companies such as John Lewis source with more net capacity. And I think we Dave Carmichael,
and Marks & Spencer’s online. When you use, are going to see a new generation of developers Sterling Commerce
say, an online accounting application remotely thinking about applications in new ways to be We are currently
it is very important that you trust the provider able to build applications that assume infinite in a hype
who you are engaging with because you are Internet computer storage resources. These cycle, where
everybody is
getting exciting
about the
Cloud, but
I think there
will be a
moment of
sobriety when
everybody
starts to really ask themselves ‘how do we
actually join it all up?’. So you will see a
proliferation of Cloud-based vendors that
will help join it all together. This is currently
being referred to as Cloud brokerage. I’m
not talking about infrastructure, I’m talking
about the tools and services that can help
make the Cloud work better. This is where
the major growth will be. We will also
anticipate a lot of Cloud companies coming
along and there will subsequently be a lot
of consolidation in the marketplace.
K Ananth Krishnan, Tata
Consultancy Services
The public Cloud vendors will continue to
make progress around meeting all enterprise
requirements. It is likely that community
Clouds will become more popular for specific
verticals or use cases. We are already seeing
governments adopting Cloud as a means of
simplifying their infrastructure and are also
providing massive amount of public data
through this delivery channel, so newer
classes of applications operating on massive
volumes of data and scalability requirements
talking about all your critical business data. things of course come at a price, and we may will become common. While there are ideas
You also need your provider to be stable and not get the immediate consistency that we get around a Federated cloud model, in which
reliable and know it is going to be around in from a traditional database, but with near workloads are dynamically deployed to the
five or ten years’ time. With more awareness unlimited storage capacity we would be enquired ‘right’ Cloud, this may move closer to reality.
and confidence in the marketplace then we to think about application architecture and Also, more product vendors will announce
will see much greater adoption. application programming in new ways. We will their licensing policy for Clouds. circlesolid
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