Enterprise Cloud Strategies. The days when corporations assembled their IT resources by buying servers, installed their own software to run on them, and managed them, are essentially over.
Instead, corporate IT will for the most part be a collection of services running in the cloud. IDC believes that in an Outsourcing 3.0 scenario, the sourcing of business and IT services from multiple external suppliers will result in a major challenge for the enterprise CIO. They will become a service broker and aggregator, involved in sourcing, integrating and managing the services — on behalf of their business units.
With cloudsourcing, the cloud will metamorphose into a universal service catalog of individual cloud services. What’s missing as yet from that is something to manage and keep track of all those disparate services. Cloud Management Software at Uptime. By Mikayel Vardanyan | Apr 11, 2011 Introduction Cloud computing is a type of computing based on sharing computing resources rather than employing local servers or personal devices to handle applications.
Corporate data centers, in particular, like Cloud computing as it enables IT to operate like the Internet. Cloud computing advantages include: Lower cost of capital investmentsMuch faster solution implementationEnergy cost savings. Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar. By Krishnan Subramanian on August 3, 2011 Dell recently announced an OpenStack cloud solution that came with an installer, called Crowbar, which makes installation of OpenStack Cloud on bare metal servers seamless and less time consuming.
In fact, with Crowbar, one can install OpenStack cloud on a rack within 30 mins or so. Dell has decided to open source Crowbar under Apache 2 license. The crowbar source code includes: A comprehensive set of barclamps to set up OpenStack cloud.