Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing
Mar 23
While startups, consultants and individuals are rushing to put their applications in the cloud large enterprises are, for the most part, are still sitting on the fence.
What is preventing adoption of cloud computing for enterprises. It basically comes down to a few issues – security, accountability and standards.
Most cloud vendors, but not all, are mum (publicly at least) on the exact details of their cloud infrastructure. Large enterprises want assurances that their applications and their data will be secure in the cloud.
If I had to pick one cloud vendor who I trusted the most in the security arena, I would go with Joyent. They are going to be a little more expensive than your commodity cloud vendors, but you are getting rock-solid service, security and support for your money.
As a potential corporate consumer of cloud services, I would want to know how my usage is being tracked and billed. “Just trust us” is not a good answer.
Right now there are no standards when it comes to deploying applications into the cloud. Applications deployed on Google App Engine need to be modified for App Engine’s environment. Same is true for Microsoft’s Azure platform.
There are no standard API’s for managing instances and services in the cloud. If you decide to move your application from one cloud vendor to another. You will probably have to re-write any custom applications you developed to manage your cloud presence.
Cloud computing can and will play a big part in enterprise architectures. Cloud vendors need to figure out how to address the concerns that potential enterprise customers may have.
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