Amazon Cloud Alternative: Enterprise Cloud vs. Commodity Cloud
When speaking about public cloud computing, many understand the benefits, but what some fail to realize is there are important differences between enterprise clouds such as Bluelock and commodity clouds such as Amazon EC2. They each have distinct value propositions and cloud computing use cases to solve different problems for different audiences. For example:
FOR MORE ENTERPRISES, THE PUBLIC CLOUD…
- Is NOT buying a lot of capacity for very short bursts
- Is NOT about paying less than doing it yourself
- Is NOT about outsourcing IT
RIGHT NOW, THE PUBLIC CLOUD IS VALUABLE TO THE ENTERPRISE WHEN…
- There is an incentive to act quickly
- There are a lot of unknowns
- You might change your mind later
COMMODITY CLOUD LIKE AMAZON AWS MAKE SENSES IF YOU…
- Are creating a greenfield application and will not need to move it from the public cloud later
- Need a cloud computing environment with specific configurations that will not change
- Will not need to transfer a significant amount of data within your environment
- Are planning to manage everything on your own, through a self-service interface without a need for managed services or phone, desk or email support from the provider
- Need a cloud computing environment designed for developer productivity, not for production environments with performance and security requirements
ENTERPRISE CLOUD COMPUTING MAKES SENSE IF YOU…
- Want on-demand compute for an existing application without the need to re-write the application before deployment
- Require more than a basic cloud environment with specific or limited configuration options because your applications and systems have complex needs that will change over time
- Will need to be able to add or remove resources to your cloud computing environment on the fly, without making signification configuration changes or needing to rebuild the entire environment which could include downtime
- Have an internal datacenter that you would like to connect to the public cloud, enabling you to move resources to and from your internal environment and the public cloud when your application or needs change
- Need to be able to predict your costs
- Would like an engagement model that provides managed services as well as desk, phone and email support when needed (24/7)
- Have specific security and compliance needs, which require attention and audits from your cloud computing provider. You also would prefer for the provider to take on the work and risk involved with securing your environment, including managing backups, firewalls and patching.
- Have a constant flow of server requests, that sometimes exceed the time and resources available from your staff and need to increase your response time to better serve the organization
- Require a high level of IT control because you have more than 4-5 core applications and they need to be managed within the same systems
FINDING AN ENTERPRISE ALTERNATIVE TO AMAZON
In a market currently dominated by commodity cloud computing offerings such as Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud Datacenter is the go-to hybrid cloud computing solution for enabling enterprises with complex computing needs to extend their private cloud to the public cloud with flexibility, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. VMware vCloud® Datacenter is a VMware certification designed to raise the bar and define a whole new class of enterprise cloud computing providers. Through a common platform built around vSphere, with common management and security models, in an environment that provides on-demand application portability, enterprise clients are accessing compatible, high-performance and integrated hybrid clouds.
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