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I was doing some reading up on cloud computing and came along this article, do check it out. How cloud will work within your organization will depend on a number of things, your organization and how it works with IT, the application or service as well as any legislation or ownership issues attached to them. That said moving to a shared computing model, one based on farm type platform using service provisioning and not ’selling virtual or physical servers’ has to be the way forward. We need to be moving towards a concept in which IT provides a shared infrastructure – you pay for what you use, IT handles capacity planning and resources, it should be like your mobile phone in the respect that I need 9-5 Monday to Thursday, so I only pay for that, back office or HR have the resources the rest of the time.

Moving to a shared platform comprising grid/hpc, web and citrix should be where we’re moving too, but it presents issues of ownership, of trust and co-ordination, hand holding if you will. The I promise statements coupled with delivery and ownership of issues. When something doesn’t work, we need to contain it, resolve it, and illustrate the core issue, highlight that it is not related to shared infrastructure – that the lights were on ready for business.

Moving to VMware is the first step, absolving myself of the individual physical server, the underlying tin, we need to move to the next step, the next generation infrastructure powering the next generation of applications which are server agnostic. They’ll need database components, MDAC components registered, they might even need other bits registered, but crucially, I should be able to develop configuration templates so that I can migrate an application between infrastructures to maintain or improve service, to keep everything online working around failures or business requirements, whether it’s using gird or Blade Logic.

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