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The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds while striving to achieve interoperability values within their systems. This article aims to answer some of the questions that arise when managing cloud workloads.

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I believe that this is the year when the enterprise will find its way to the cloud.

The mega Internet sites and applications are the new era enterprises. These will become the role models for the traditional enterprise. IT needs remain the same with regards to scale, security, SLA, etc. However, the traditional enterprise CIO has already set the goal for next year: 100% efficiency.

The traditional CIO understands that in order to achieve that goal, IT will need to start and do cloud, make sure that IT resources are utilized right, and that his teams move fast.

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During the year I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with people, read and study a lot of articles, sayings, and opinions about Cloud Computing. Finally, when as 2012 winds up, I’ve noticed some interesting positions in the Cloud community and definitely, last but not least, in the business community as to who uses or wants to use services provided through Cloud Computing. Here are some of my conclusions about what will happen during the coming year 2013 > Congratulations! High school begins!

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Last week was an exciting and busy one for the cloud community in Israel. Two important annual Cloud Computing conferences took place in the vibrant city of Tel Aviv: The IGT Annual Summit and the Amazon Cloud Tel Aviv 2012 Summit.

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Last week WWF (World Wide Fund) released their yearly Living Planet Report (LPR) 2012 (complete report) (click here for a nice summary of the report). Among other things, it reported that in 2008 used up 50% more than the earth can give. This means we used more than 1.5 times the resources our planet can produce. Yes; we used what’s aimed for the future – big time. The biggest spenders were Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The top 10 consumers included the United States, Denmark and Canada, with Sweden in 13^th place. Swedes used about 3 times more carbon than our planet could give “per Swede”. The numbers will probably be more or less the same for 2012.

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There’s a lot of talk about cloud washing. Some people get upset and say things like it damages the cloud’s reputation, blurs the definition and slows down adoption of pure cloud services. What are cloud-washed services, how can you avoid them and choose true cloud services? In this article you will find some tips on how to end up with the cloud vendor that best suits your business needs.

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A fact is that IT as a Service keeps taking market shares. The services are delivered as traditional SaaS, from a Managed- / Service Provider or as cloud services. We see growths in areas like IaaS and especially PaaS when application providers and vendors put applications in the cloud. But the speed is not what many expect. What’s causing this? I’ve been doing some thinking.

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I often read articles which say something like:

- ”Don’t go to the cloud, it’s not safe”
- “Office 365 down for several hours – what did I tell you”
- “Datacenter on Ireland knocked out by thunderstorm – keep it on-premise”
- “Companies will move back IT on-premise in the future, away from the service providers”

And that often said by trusted IT advisors and renowned journalists. This makes me a bit confused and irritated. I also ask myself: how trustworthy is it to diss the evolution?

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Clouds move fast, and change fast.  The advantage is having elastic, fast, and un-planned deployments. However, uncontrolled usage leads very quickly into footprint sprawl – cloud sprawl, overspend and unpredictable behavior.  Contrary to VM sprawl, where the virtualization environment provides natural containment, cloud sprawl can be rather chaotic and expensive – exactly for the same reasons we enumerated above: lack of visibility and control, unpredictability, new processes, and different practices.

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