Iaas, Infrastructure as a service is an important proponent of true and complete cloud. Today rackspace, amazon EC2, jamcrackers, S3, Proofpoint, and RightScale are the game changers in IaaS services. The infrastructure as a service is an easy and viable options for cost rationalization, eliminating over dependency on additional resources. Today organizations are strategizing its renewed IT infrastructure management solutions blue print, while experiencing IaaS benefit. In many enterprises today, the infrastructure evolution toward cloud computing is under way. Over the last few years, IT has been responding to new user demands and, in the process, laying the foundation for cloud computing with:
• Consolidation of computing resources
• Virtualization of resources, with some 30 to 40 percent of businesses virtualized today
• Reprovisioning resources on demand
• The beginnings of automation with the decoupling of physical assets and services
Today virtualization and extending the virtualization architecture beyond the boundary of organization, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and extending service orchestration, automated provisioning, and unified computing are making enterprise IaaS architectures technically and operationally feasible.
Cloud adoption requires an approach that covers the virtualized data center architecture and the IaaS cloud operations management architecture. These architectures must work in conjunction; through cloud service orchestration, changes and updates are made simultaneously to both. The IaaS cloud operations management includes such technologies as cloud service orchestration, which runs an end-to-end workflow; usage-based chargeback mechanisms; service level agreement (SLA) management; and a federated configuration management database (CMDB).
Disaster Recovery: Today, many disaster recovery systems remain expensive, seldom used cost centers. IaaS offers the capability to consolidate multiple disparate disaster recovery systems into a single virtualized instance, shared across multiple IT applications, to increase asset utilization and reduce cost. Potential worldwide revenue in 2013 is forecast to be $1.1 billion. IT Disaster recovery represents a low-risk service for enterprises since they still own primary infrastructure. Provisioning is rapid via orchestration automation. In order to pilot a cloud approach, some enterprises are starting with lower risk IT cloud services, for example, software development and test cloud environments. A high degree of virtualization achieves economy of scale and reduces service delivery costs.
In essence, IaaS is a modular infrastructure solution with data services that can be turned on and off based on customer demand and available capacity. Its flexible architecture scales up or down, enabling elasticity for customers. It also provides rapid provisioning and end-to-end SLA management capabilities. The data center architecture, which can span many data centers, can provide business continuity and disaster recovery. IaaS also delivers ease of platform migration for workloads, multiuser support, and multiple application lifecycle support.
So not only are there quick deployment, migration, and scaling of enterprise applications and associated infrastructure, but the cost advantages for enterprise applications from IaaS are significant: low cost per resource; no waste from over dimensioning; and capital expense is converted to operating expense, a variable cost. Most importantly, the rapid provisioning and orchestration capabilities intrinsic to cloud and IaaS transform the user’s experience of service delivery, in contrast to traditional service procurement cycles, which could take months rather than minutes.
Today mobility has redefined the technology trends and apps are fast moving to mobile devices for greater end user experience, at the same time improving quality of life. The new mobile Apps are simple, easy, and enables greater time and cost rationalization. There are things to look forward as, How fast things can change and how quickly mobile innovations can alter the competitive and business landscape in the mobility arena today. Mobile computing technology has broken all barriers related to “perceived superiority”. Innovation in the mobile space is no longer the prerogative of a few design houses or countries; it is a much wider phenomenon. This also brings us to the topic of what the future is going to be in the mobile space, thanks to the fierce competition between platforms and providers – old and new, experienced and not so experienced. Here is what would shape the future of mobility:
Enterprise Applications Moving to the Cloud
We are experiencing Cloud Computing wave, it is the ease of use, adoptability, cost factors that are driving everyone to adopt cloud as it is getting defined today. Nowhere is the effect being felt as strongly as in the mobile computing space. With Apple’s iCloud already offering seamless synching of all of one’s mobile devices, the tidal wave may have just started. iCloud may be promising just free space and calendar synch capability as of now, but as computing power and applications start making the network their preferred place of operations, a new wave of innovations is bound to hit the enterprise mobile space. We could see the emergence of enterprise application stores offered as a managed service for non-primary tasks along with the focus on core enterprise applications getting powered over the cloud and thus breaking the computing prowess barrier of the handheld. Organizations are demanding mobile interface for critical enterprise applications, so that a seamless and incessant strategic objectives are available at your finger tips. Salesforce CRM on mobile, Blackberry, video on mobile are few classic examples.
Internet is the only enabler of cost effective distributed computing as we understand the cloud of today, and hence companies still need to find answers to questions on security and how to enable multiple virtual networks to seamlessly talk to enable a glitch free corporate and user experience, but those are problems that are already being worked upon and hence a solution may not be too far away.
Portability as a Deciding Factor for Development Platform Choice
We all acknowledge that application development needs to get de-constrained from the platform quirks to enable enterprises to not only to not get tied down to a single platform and device but also to promote BOYD to reduce IT costs. What seems to be appearing as the biggest enabler in the portability space is HTML5. It is emerging as the standard for mobile application and service development and is being supported by all the major mobile web browsers, except Windows as of now. It is also expected to be supported by all the major ERP vendors as a part of their mobile enterprise application platform offerings. Portability, thus, is emerging as a key criterion while choosing the development platform.
Allowing Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) to Enable Mobility
Although this does not count as a trend within the mobile computing and development space, it certainly is one within the consulting domain.Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) related to the mobile space is expected to gain prominence as enterprise mobility catches up further. Read more
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