This week, Microsoft announced it’s cloud platform Windows Azure and one thing is for sure, it looks nothing like VMware’s Virtual Data Center OS initiative (VDC-OS) announced at last month’s VMworld conference (for reference, see Chris Wolf’s Keynote Blog). The…
“How could the economic downturn impact on customers and the industry?” IBM’s Steve Mills was asked this week. Mills, who is Senior Vice President and Group Executive of IBM’s Software Group, was blunt: “There is more uncertainty at this time that most of us have experienced in our lifetimes,” he conceded, before adding: “Nonetheless Information Technology continues to provide the ability to operate a business more efficiently.”
One of the challenges is getting used to the fact that all hardware resources: CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization are shared between virtual machines. This means that applications and users can impact each other and, therefore, resource monitoring becomes extremely important. If you don’t closely monitor resource consumption by each virtual machine and simply keep adding more virtual machines without doing analysis on how this will impact all four core resources, the result will be bad performance and even system downtime. Ultimately, this means unhappy users, dissatisfied managers, and a negative impact on the virtualization project. So, you need to find a way to prevent this problem.
Cloud Computing is now an all-encompassing IT paradigm with tremendous focus on the so-called “Public Clouds” as IT Service Providers. But while the promise of public clouds is very alluring, many existing corporate data centers today exceed the total capacity of many of today’s cloud providers. A transition of all compute resources to the public cloud is not going to happen over night - and, in fact, there are a number of inhibitors beyond just capacity inhibiting their adoption.
Virtualization has fostered a new generation of cloud services, enabling organizations to run a wide range of applications in the cloud. However, the value of cloud services will only be fully realized when organizations can take their existing application workloads, easily deploy them on standards-based cloud infrastructure and benefit from the increased scalability and lower costs of a utility model.
If you were to believe the hype from the media and certain so called industry experts, you would be forgiven for thinking that cloud computing is the second coming. The answer to all our scaling and usage problems. Everything to everyone. The notion that the “cloud” is always on, or up, is a myth that is being propogated, irresponsibly, around the corridors of tech. As they say, what goes up must come down and software is no different.
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