I, Business.

Source: Information Week

Author: Charles Babcock

Main article here.

Summary:

Came across this very interesting article, about the commons issues with a business' approach towards cloud projects.

The author discusses seven issues here.

1. Using the Cloud forces different functions in an organization to work together to define the end-result of data integration on the users.

2. It is difficult (nay, highly difficult) to integrate all of the enterprise's current applications onto the Cloud at once. Especially the current mainframe apps.

3. The cloud imposes simplification on what heretofore has been a self-reinforcing march of complexity in the data center.

4. The bigger your commitment to the cloud, the more you will be involved in Vendor Management, sometimes taking months to negotiate with Cloud providers. This may even derails the project, and is not a step to be contemplated lightly.

5. There is no sense in believing a vendor all the time, especially when he can promise a solution as simple as a plugin to enable an enterprise on the Cloud.

6. A project planner should be able to predict the costs involved in using more of the Cloud, which is not as easy as it looks: these costs may be dependant on a number of factors including the amounts of data, number of html requests, etc.

7. Adhering to strict policy making, and rigorous application of the standards implied are vital to ensure a smooth transition of the project from a traditional x86 machine onto the Cloud.