Clouds in general may be sleeping giants of climate change - true ?

I was listening to one of the documentaries on "Thunderheads" where a daring group of scientists tries to catch the Perfect storm across Darwin in Australia. International cloud experiment is what they call themselves. During their research they realize that clouds are indeed sleeping giants and they have ability to trap heat and reflect sunlight back into space.

So how is this related to our cloud in the whole cloud computing space? I believe that cloud computing is a sleeping giant and organizations are yet to realize the potential of the same. Once it’s unearthed it’s beyond doubt going to change the rules of Information technology. If the demand heats up will the cloud coverage change? That is the question which most of us simply don’t know but part of the answer lies with the enterprises or large organizations and cloud vendors as they are the clouds that make the cloud. Going forward it’s going to be collaboration amongst all of them which will keep the cloud sparkly.

Can public cloud dominate the Enterprise space ?

In most of the conversations what i have with my colleagues on the various cloud delivery models for enterprises, public cloud adoption seems to be the most debated. While we all agree to the fact that nothing you build internally can match the economies of scale and reach the skepticism pops up around the challenges for its adoption. Security being the primary one followed by the lack of standards and committed service levels. The debate that private cloud adoption will be the mainstream within enterprises by embracing the technology behind the public cloud i strongly believe that there is no reason why not to choose Public cloud instead. The simple reason behind the belief is that the talent tap that comes from the public cloud, the consumer base and solution variety will become irresistible for enterprises and before we see any big difference in the way it exists today adoption would have already happened.

While affordability will draw more and more minds to innovate new markets will be created and public clouds will become the mainstream reach to the end customers for enterprises. The modes of usage will be refined based on the business line but majority over the private is not so far.

Cloud Computing – Will organizations adopt to Save money ?

Organizations are pondering around the buzz word of cloud computing and technology behind the same with the de facto offer of cost savings build into the model. While new technology has been a tool to optimize and streamline the overall IT operations, its being heavily looked upon to cut costs and hence very less cutting back on the new technology uptake.

Most CIO's considers their internal IT systems to be too expensive but still considers themselves early adopters of technology. Its clear that the adoption is primarily driven with the motive to cut costs. There is a strong belief among the CIO's that cloud computing as a new technology can help them bring in a positive impact on the bottom line by bringing in a controlled outflow on recurring costs and lower upfront costs. Given the fact that cost savings are a possibility the adoption of these technology with full force is yet to happen. There was a strong reluctance due to the turbulent economic times and now with the change in the scenario adoption and switch will begin.