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Cloud Computing: An Assessment

Published by: Coda Research Consultancy Ltd.

Published: Sep. 1, 2009 - 50 Pages


Table of Contents


Executive summary

Introduction

Definitions and drivers

What users want and suppliers need to know

Costs

Security

Vendor lock-in

International law and regulation

Formalised procedures

Understanding employees

In considering moving to cloud services, and cloud governance

Contenders for cloud services

The future

Conclusion

Abstract

This report is a comprehensive international study around cloud computing. By drawing upon research and interviews with IT executives and users, it looks at what IT buyers and users need from cloud services and suppliers, what suppliers need to know about users and the emerging market, and the future trajectories of cloud computing from 2011 through to 2020.

Topics discussed in this report
  • Benefits and drawbacks of Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, servers, storage, and business processes through the cloud
  • Public, private and hybrid clouds
  • When to move what to which cloud services, and how
  • Vertical markets, SMEs, large enterprises and cloud services
  • Service level agreements
  • Costs
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Vendor lock-in
  • International law and regulation
  • Standards and transparency
  • What IT execs give importance to when thinking about the cloud
  • Importance IT execs give to attributes of cloud services
  • Challenges IT execs believe face cloud computing
  • Which cloud services to invest in, and which are going to grow the most and least
  • How cloud computing and existing computing will co-exist in the short, medium and long terms
  • Revenue growth across services and impacts on IT expenditure
  • Other recommendations for IT suppliers and buyers
Selected highlights

The following are discussed in detail, and their consequences for buyers and suppliers:

Top issues of importance for IT decision makers when considering cloud services for their organisations:

1.Speed of deployment
2.Pay as you go
3.Lower overheads 

Top requirements that IT decision makers have of cloud service providers:

1.Competitive costs
2.Offer comprehensive service level agreements
3.Understand the buying organisation’s business and industry 

Top challenges that cloud computing faces, according to IT decision makers:

1.Security
2.Performance
3.Reliability 

Top issues of concern that developers have when considering cloud services:

1.Vendor lock in
2.Standards and lack of transparency to enable interoperability between clouds and between clouds and existing development environments
3.Specifications to enable cloud service migration.

Indepth international projections for 2011-2020 appear throughout the report

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