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Friday 12 September 2008, 3:59 PM
"Services not Servers" can I trademark that?
It’s seems like a long time since I had a chance to post another blog. We’ve entered silly-season here and there’s sometimes not enough hours in the day.
So, what have I missed? In the 6 weeks since my last blog I’ve read articles talking about the end of SaaS and that Cloud Computing will not take off the ground. If we can only get rid of virtualisation, consolidation or just servers in general my job would be so much easier....
The articles can be found here...
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/0,1000001991,39466346,00.htm and
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009015o-2000458459b,00.htm#comment20096497
Both articles make some good points, Ignoring the ‘People are Stupid’ comment and with all due respect, I disagree.
You see, fundamentally both Saas and Cloud Computing are very good ideas if properly implemented, managed and secured.
The ability to just consume services and not having to provision and manage yet another couple of servers that fit a sole purpose. What’s the point of that? When you can browse to a secured application and just use the service.
Moving on from this is Microsoft’s Software and Services which expands this principal by adding the service element to software consumption is the next step in this evolution.
Fundamentally this is a really good idea. How many of you know are planning consolidation projects because you’ve found yourselves with 30-40% of your server estate running single roles on decent hardware that isn’t breaking a sweat.
Consolidation and virtualisation are things that you’re all looking at now as there’s a need to reduce server estate, management and overhead. So having some of the services you use available as a service is going to help you achieve this.
As to Cloud Computing the ability to consume Storage and Backup and Desktop services remotely and securely is again fundamentally a good idea as long as it’s secure and managed properly and implemented well.
Those of you old enough to remember mainframes will feel a little justified that this idea is coming back around again.
I’m far too young of course...
So, what have I missed? In the 6 weeks since my last blog I’ve read articles talking about the end of SaaS and that Cloud Computing will not take off the ground. If we can only get rid of virtualisation, consolidation or just servers in general my job would be so much easier....
The articles can be found here...
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/0,1000001991,39466346,00.htm and
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009015o-2000458459b,00.htm#comment20096497
Both articles make some good points, Ignoring the ‘People are Stupid’ comment and with all due respect, I disagree.
You see, fundamentally both Saas and Cloud Computing are very good ideas if properly implemented, managed and secured.
The ability to just consume services and not having to provision and manage yet another couple of servers that fit a sole purpose. What’s the point of that? When you can browse to a secured application and just use the service.
Moving on from this is Microsoft’s Software and Services which expands this principal by adding the service element to software consumption is the next step in this evolution.
Fundamentally this is a really good idea. How many of you know are planning consolidation projects because you’ve found yourselves with 30-40% of your server estate running single roles on decent hardware that isn’t breaking a sweat.
Consolidation and virtualisation are things that you’re all looking at now as there’s a need to reduce server estate, management and overhead. So having some of the services you use available as a service is going to help you achieve this.
As to Cloud Computing the ability to consume Storage and Backup and Desktop services remotely and securely is again fundamentally a good idea as long as it’s secure and managed properly and implemented well.
Those of you old enough to remember mainframes will feel a little justified that this idea is coming back around again.
I’m far too young of course...
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