Instead of seeing data and device explosion as a challenge, cloud service providers should capitalise on it.
This is according to Sheng Liang, CTO of cloud platforms at Citrix, in an interview with ITWeb at the Citrix Synergy Conference, in Barcelona, yesterday. “The growth in data and devices has been so tremendous, and cloud providers should always look at ways of taking advantage of such growth.”
Liang also pointed out that enterprises should consider ways of making the transition to cloud computing by breaking the barriers that are associated with such a switch.
“These barriers include security and privacy concerns, software licensing, as well as process and organisation. If we get rid of these barriers, we can make the transition smoothly,” he said.
According to Liang, cloud computing transforms the economics and nature of IT from a cost of doing business into an on-demand service that can respond to changing business needs.
“However, to be successful, the transformation must minimise disruption while adding value and efficiency. It must bring cloud economics and elasticity to on-premise resources, give cloud-based resources the security, performance and SLAs of corporate data centres, and seamlessly integrate on-premise and cloud networking, identity management and orchestration,” he explained.
He also noted that enterprises and service providers that are interested in launching cloud-computing services face the difficult task of integrating complex software and hardware components from multiple vendors.
“The resulting system could end up being expensive to build and hard to operate, minimising the original motives and benefits of moving to this new model,” he said.
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