In some industries, unmanaged public cloud services also raise the specter of serious regulatory violations.
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Gartner says that IT organizations will spend more on private cloud computing than on public cloud services through 2014.
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Fortunately, there are steps that companies can take to manage cloud sprawl without sacrificing the opportunities that public cloud services can deliver.
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Not clear from the Gartner survey is how many deployments will be with public cloud services, versus private or hybrid clouds under greater enterprise control.
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Even the Central Intelligence Agency, which probably has the most sensitive and secretive data on the planet, is on board with public cloud services at that.
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Still, there is new evidence that confidence in outside public cloud services is growing, and even the most nervous executives are allowing some outside services to fuel some of their processes.
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Public cloud services can be expensive when utilized inefficiently.
In a recent survey of 4, 500 high-level IT professionals in 83 countries, ISACA (the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) discovered that organizations fear the risks of using public cloud services.
The difficulty, of course, is that the very nature of public cloud services means there are few barriers to stop employees from simply using a credit card to self-provision a useful new capability.
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Close to half of the CIOs contributing to the Navint report expect to boost their private cloud budgets by more than 20%, and about a third will be increasing spending on public cloud services.
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Next, it is critical to communicate company cloud policies and strategies clearly and concisely, with an emphasis on the positive benefits that public cloud services used within an IT governance model can bring to the organization.
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With open source clouds, resident IT managers can unshackle their operations from expensive legacy systems, and more cost-effectively build highly standardized sets of services that can compete with comparable and likely more generic public cloud services.
It also demonstrated new public cloud services from Boeing and General Mills plus a commissioned report by Forrester attesting to the differentiated economics of cloud platforms, something I talk about with CIOs in a report published this past spring.
However, there is, or should be, a convergence that takes place between public and private (and hybrid, in which both approaches are applied and integrated.) Ultimately, private cloud can be extended beyond the walls of the corporation to partners and customers, while public cloud services can be allocated to communities of users within enterprises.
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Analysts IDC predicted that from 2012-2016 public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 26.4%, some five times the growth of the IT industry overall.
The public and hybrid cloud services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
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Bottom line: cloud adoption is still an immature process, and organizations are still exploring and getting comfortable with the mixes and matches of private, public and hybrid cloud services.
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One attempt to sidestep the network issue is via public cloud-based print services.
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We believe that cloud-based video services, whether public or private cloud, will be the key to stimulating growth.
The scale-out public cloud such as Amazon Web Services holds the promise of finally delivering an infrastructure that can respond to business fluctuations nimbly.
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They must be among the top 15 global providers, by Gartner-estimated market share for the evaluated services (public cloud IaaS and standardized private cloud IaaS).
You can even arrange for private cloud support from a public cloud vendor or co-location services provider as I mentioned in my last blog entry.
Enterprise CIOs should consider the cost and labor saving benefits of public clouds when used with cloud management services that analyze potential cost spiral issues, utilization issues, and security vulnerabilities.
Service providers like Equinix, Logicworks and many others, offer private clouds that are essentially turnkey systems in which the infrastructure is separated and dedicated, but otherwise the cloud works just like Amazon Web Services, the Rackspace Cloud, or other public clouds.
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This appears to validate the public cloud service vision of simply being able to subscribe to services as needed, leaving the nitty-gritty technical details to providers.
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We he made his first public statements last March Apotheker said he intended to make HP a cloud-based services company, with a strong base of analytic software.
An independent Zend survey found that today, 68 percent of PHP apps are deployed to public clouds within that a full 51% of developers say Amazon Web Services is their cloud of choice.
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