As I continue to have my thinking cap on regarding cloud computing for the enterprise, I’m trying to come up with the different “pins” that will need to get knocked down for real enterprise adoption. I was turned on to a post on ElasticVapor on a cloud computing interoperability effort via a CNET post. The basic tenant of the article is that in order for enterprise to get really excited about moving applications/data into the cloud that they will have to be able to easily port data between different cloud computing providers’ systems.
Since my relatively dense previous post on cloud computing adoption and the enterprise wasn’t all that well loved by this blog’s readership base, I thought I’d post another…
I’m not convinced interoperability will be required for INITIAL cloud computing adoption in the enterprise. I more believe that enterprises will want to be sure they can get their data out of the cloud and into their own systems easily enough, and will worry less about moving it to different cloud providers. I do not think that particularly mission critical aps will be put into the cloud initially. Therefore, enterprises will be less concerned with ensuring that they can move from one cloud to another if there are reliability or cost issues, and more interested in making sure they can just get their data/aps back onto their internal systems.
The real competition here in the cloud space isn’t other cloud providers - it’s the old way of doing computing, internally/at your co-location facility or in your own data center. I think that surges in compute demand are likely to drive the first real enterprise adoption of the cloud.
