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2 years ago
Courtesy of ICTS, Paula Richards of IBM took some time to educate Trinidad on Cloud Computing. Many solid facts that apply to cloud computing considerations for any platform’s offering were brought up, although product offerings such as Lotus Live, Cloudburst and Tivoli Services Automation Manager did have their appropriate mentions. Her own watchwords of ‘design and architecture’ when it came to applying the cloud computing paradigm to current systems were quite refreshing to hear. I thank ICTS executives of Fenwick Reid, David Green and Cindy Ramsook for making this event happen, as well as my friend Richard Lee at IBM for pointing me to such a pleasantly informative event.
Some takeaways and near-exact quotations from this seminar for those who want an idea of the pulse of the talk follow:
In a cloud world, QoS (Quality of Service) and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) become uber-important.
“Cloud makes IT consumable” - The Apple App Store is a good example of a ‘cloud application’
“Cloud Services vs Cloud Platform” - IBM is working with open standards bodies to define the API for Cloud Services around the aspects applications, provisioning and metering. Websphere is an example of platform as a service.
Businesses are using cloud to “get control of IT” by bringing value to the business service itself.
IBM has an ROI tool to help businesses calculate the impact of undertaking Cloud initiatives, and the bottom line impact.
In IBM’s ROI analysis, going with cloud ‘liberated funding’
Cloud Services Delivered = Smart Business Services
Cloud in a box = Purpose-built infrastructure = Smart Business Systems
The low hanging fruit for cloud include Analytics, Collaboration, Development + Testing and Desktop services
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