An Early View of Cloud Computing1
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Abstract
Cloud computing is a new delivery method and choice available today or Enterprisecomputing that in the uture will be revolutionary or business. It is a massivelyscalable, osite inrastructure accessible on demand across the internet on a pay-per-use basis – owned by someone else. Over the past ew years business unctionshave increasingly demanded internet-based services. As a result o a challengingeconomic environment, Capgemini has seen clients reassess options o support ornon-dierentiating computing resource layers o the inrastructure when evaluatingIT budgets. The timing is right or accelerated adoption o cloud computing.The advantages o cloud computing are many. Both server compute and storage ca-pacity can be accessed in near real-time, when needed, without waiting or resourcesto be assembled in an on-premise data center. Speed to value is high and the risksinherent in capacity planning can be mitigated. Also, the use o cloud computing ishighly exible and can quickly respond to changes in load. Will all applications in the uture be run in the cloud? Not likely. But Capgeminihas helped several clients take advantage o cloud computing, most notably withOracle Applications, Microsot SharePoint and Application Development Testing ser-vices. This paper also presents several other well-known examples o cloud usage.Cloud computing is real and it is here to stay. The uture o cloud computing islikely to include not one standardized cloud but several cloud types, some built orspecialized non-commoditized applications. In the uture, some cloud types may beused in a private or semi-private manner.Cloud computing is inherently green. Economics plays a part because as you payor only what you need you use this resource only when needed. Being a sharedservice, capacity utilization is much higher than with enterprise computing and youdo not have to set up and power hardware not being used.It is easy to envision a uture where businesses will combine and reuse businesslogic residing in ar-ung locations with a new type o mashup, sometimes calleda “business mashup.” Business mashups will make it easier to do business moresynergistically and ar more collaboratively when desired. They will also create anew marketplace. Although rom a technical perspective this is an evolution, rom abusiness perspective it will be a revolution.
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