Australian organisations moving to a private cloud are expecting return on investment in less than two years, while those enterprises plumping for public clouds expect 20 per cent annual savings on their IT bills. While it’s business agility that large organisations claim they want from the cloud – the hip pocket benefits aren’t being sneezed at.
Microsoft, Red Hat, HP and Oracle all had big cloud announcements this week that highlight the growing trend toward enterprise cloud computing.
Cloud computing is one of today’s largest market opportunities. According to Saugatuck Technology, by 2016, 75 percent or more of new enterprise IT spending will be on cloud-based or hybrid technologies.
Cloud computing seems to be all the rage these days. It’s not just a passing fad of course, it’s actually a very real business and a state of the art. The problem is that cloud computing means many things to many people, whether it’s public cloud, private cloud, software, infrastructure or platform as a service, etc.
The realm of remote, scalable and automated computing, also known as Cloud Computing, is currently progressing at a very fast pace.
CompatibleOne is a research project, under the aegis of the two competitiveness clusters System@tic and SCS, aiming at facilitating the deployment, the configuration and the administration of public, private or hybrid Clouds using open standards and interoperable
HP is having another crack at cloud computing, announcing that from May 10th it will progressively roll out an infrastructure, then platform as a service public cloud. It will couple this with tools to allow enterprises to build their own internal clouds, and offer a range of managed cloud services.
The public cloud is one of the fastest-growing market opportunities in history. Forrester, a leading research company, estimates the total size of the public cloud market will grow from $25.5 billion in 2011 to $159.3 billion in 2020.
Companies are moving to the public or hybrid cloud model for a number of reasons including:
Business agility.
This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll take a look at the technologies, thinking and open source projects that are feeding into future products on the Red Hat cloud computing roadmap.
Different clouds, both public and private, speak different languages.
Migrating test and development to a cloud computing environment has cut the time it takes Westpac to provision a system used for testing from 14 days to four hours. It’s just one of the benefits that Australia’s major banks are starting to accrue from their early adventures in cloud computing which for some are pointing to a step change in terms of efficiency and agility.
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