Cloudification
Own data centers and their own infrastructure are often expensive, especially with respect to investment and operating costs. Even hosted infrastructures still require regular replacement and expansion investments. From digitization, new requirements also arise for the IT infrastructures in terms of scalability, agile service provision, high standardization of resources and "on demand" flexibility in computing performance and storage.
New development methods, such as DevOps, as well as approaches like Internet of Things (IoT) or other technical developments, are based on cloud technology, which can hardly provide their own infrastructure services. Digitization ultimately drives cloud computing and vice versa. In this way, cloud computing reaches a broad application after long years of discussion and becomes a mainstream. Software-defined infrastructures form another strategic top trend.
Cloud is always cheaper - not true!
Cloud computing is definitely not always associated with cost savings, even if this is often suggested by the cloud providers. The cost effects depend not only on price for the cloud resources, but also by their own cost (now and in the future to manage the cloud infrastructure) and the amount of transition costs that the result of the migration to the cloud as well as the necessary architecture adaptation to affected or connected systems. Regardless of the cost impact, however, significant advantages arise from the use of cloud-based infrastructures:
- Shorter deployment times for configured resources
- Standardization of deployed and used infrastructure configurations
- Availability of dynamically scalable resources
- Unified management of computing power, storage and network
- Increased reliability through automated resources orchestration and increased fault tolerance
- Improved reporting and monitoring through combined infrastructure management layers
Ultimately, it is a strategic decision whether and to what extent to deploy cloud infrastructures. A serious consideration should be made in any case, as many of the benefits of the cloud are difficult to achieve through their own data center. Our structured approach helps to quickly and transparently get transparency about where clouding is meaningful and which cost and operating effects arise thereby. A good basis for defining and implementing the cloud strategy.
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