In a recent post on Wisdom of the Clouds, James Urguat discusses the challenges of making the transition from a traditional data center to a Cloud Computing environment. He says:
He continues with an introduction of a five part model for the transition process to virtual servers which consists of five steps: Consolidation, Abstraction Automation, Utility Market. He describes the steps:
"One of the really difficult aspects of cloud computing for most established IT organizations is the fact that the move to clouds, even private clouds, is not a simple, intuitive one."
He continues with an introduction of a five part model for the transition process to virtual servers which consists of five steps: Consolidation, Abstraction Automation, Utility Market. He describes the steps:
- Consolidation: is achieved as data centers discover ways to reduce redundancy and wasted space and equipment by measured planning of both architecture (including facilities allocation and design) and process.
- Abstraction occurs when data centers decouple the workloads and payloads of their data center infrastructure from the physical infrastructure itself, and manage to the abstraction instead of the infrastructure.
- Automation comes into play when data centers systematically remove manual labor requirements for run time operation of the data center.
- Utility is the stage at which data centers introduce the concepts of self-service and metering.
- Market is achieved when utilities can be brought together over the Internet to create an open competitive marketplace for IT capabilities (an "Inter-cloud", so to speak).
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