I've been reading a lot about the reality of cloud adoption in by business. All kinds of statistics are getting thrown about -- good info, but also contradictory and wildly diverging.
This is normal when we have a fast moving paradigm shift -- all surveys are essentially behind the times for a while.
I'm much more sanguine about cloud computing. If we think of cloud computing as a new operating model for IT folk, I’m seeing great interest in the adoption among newScale’s customers.
What they want to do is to enable self-service catalog that abstracts the services IT provides, presents a clear consumption charge and reports and (slowly and appropriately) automate service delivery.
One of the first step in adopting the cloud operating model is to figure out which services you'll provide to whom, which is why service catalogs are hot.
And that's why I write about cloud computing in a service catalog blog. You can't have agility in self service if you don't know what you'll need to provision, and you can't stream line provisioning if you don't work on automating the process.
The other aspect I'm seeing is that services are physical dedicated, virtual dedicated, virtual shared and externally provided by an MSP or Hosting company. This is real stuff that is operating right now among my customers.
Yet it's important to acknowledge this is a huge change in how IT does business. There are lots of good discussions going on about the future of IT jobs and roles. This is the people part of cloud computing that also has to be worked out.
It will take a while for all moving parts to look like the nirvana vision of cloud many of us share, but I'm very encouraged by the interest I'm seeing and the real-life examples among newScale customers.
To quote William Gibson, "The future is here, just not evenly distributed."
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