FOCUS CLOUD FUTURES
Issue 15, April/May
IN 2011 HALF THE GROWTH IN THE SOFTWARE MARKET WILL COME FROM CLOUD SOFTWARE SERVICES
Market value B
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
- 2010 2011
On-premises software Cloud software
On-premises Western Europe software will grow by 2% ($1.7bn) to $84.9bn. better
This a performance
than in 2010, which was a very poor year for software sales.
Cloud software will grow by 48% (€1.7bn) to $5.3bn.
In 2010, cloud software growth was more than 80% of the overall growth but this was due to the very low on-premises software growth. Despite a decline in relative market growth for cloud software, this will still be an outstanding result
in 2011
cloud software. Source: IDC
for
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CONCERNS AND VALUE nfrastructure-as-a-Service value in (IaaS) is
becoming a commodity, but there is much greater
Software-as-
a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) higher up the stack. That is where tomorrow’s leaders will find real differentiation. Hybrid clouds – ie, SaaS and PaaS, in combination with internal applications – will help organizations accomplish tasks they cannot accomplish today and will cement IT’s role as a driver of business growth.
When SaaS also provides a platform it makes it easier to customize and tap into an
expanding ecosystem of third-party
applications. Service providers will begin to provide targeted vertical solutions.
CLOUD COMPUTING CREATES VALUE
The current focus on infrastructure doesn’t help organizations differentiate themselves. Together, SaaS and PaaS rather than IaaS will enable IT to create value through a combination of cost reduction,
speed to
“Cloud computing will become ubiquitous. Private clouds accommodate a desire, and often a legal requirement, for data to remain within an enterprise. Public clouds meet the needs of many enterprises, and we can expect to see more ‘hybrid’ cloud models. IT pros will have to manage a portfolio of models that include traditional and virtualized cloud as well.”
KRIS FITZGERALD, CTO, DELL SERVICES
market, agility and the ability to gracefully integrate business processes with partners and suppliers’ solutions as a way to entice more enterprises to move applications to the cloud.
More organizations will deploy virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) for high-security or highly standardized desktop environments.
Private clouds will be utilized for
development and testing, along with transient applications, such as product demonstrations for customers, that
can
SOFTWARE PREDICTION
REACTION Positive: Traditional s/w
licenses are not just about initial purchase price. On-going support and maintenance (to get upgrades) are the hidden costs, plus cost of upgrade (the latter is seamless in SaaS), so you don’t have to build an in-house team to support the application and get guaranteed service levels.
Sean Hoban, CEO, Kimble Applications*
Commoditization of IT infrastructure will accelerate.
IDC*
be set up and retired quickly.
Public clouds
will be leveraged more for non- different iat ing applications or for ‘cloudbursting’ – a computing-on-demand
model for processing heavy,
short-term workloads. But we expect hybrid clouds – mixing public and one or more private services – to emerge as the dominant model in most enterprises.
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Before the full potential of cloud computing can be realized, companies and their service providers have plenty of technical and business hurdles
to and managing federated
As data and services are spread across a variety of service providers, hybrid models will provide the best balance of flexibility while managing risk.
We expect the shift to move from the cost of discrete IT components to a discussion about the total cost of ownership (TCO) of cloud solutions. The current emphasis is on economies of scale from volume, automation, commoditization and consolidation.
There are many implicit cost elements
involving quality of service, staff and skill requirements,
the granularity of licensing
costs and charge backs. Load elasticity is another consideration; the ability to reduce utilization when demand is low makes costs variable as well.
overcome. Technologically, IT teams will have to develop strategies for implementing
identities, which are necessary for enabling consistent permissions, roles and traceability across multiple service providers. IT leaders will have to work with cloud service providers to determine the right federation rules for their communities.
WHAT CONCERNS YOU? Concerns for providers include: platform- level version management activities
(the
ability to manage local patches, versioning and upgrades without introducing risk to cloud consumers); and richer application programming interfaces (APIs), which are necessary
for more sophisticated applications.
Concerns for users involve: consistent policy enforcement across cloud providers; access to event meta-data, which is critical for analytics; governance over applications and data that is stored in third-party data centers; better fault- tolerance for application architectures; and network latency. n
Extract from Accenture Technology Visions 2011
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