So many businesses are looking to cloud for many reasons and we in IT have become responsible for devaluing the opportunity that can come from it by over using the terminology without a clear definition about what it means.
One thing we always make people aware about is that cloud and virtualisation are based upon principles that have been around for decades; those principles being both business and technical principles. The key thing to remember is that we are now better armed than when we tried this similar concept in the past; we have better computers and importantly faster, ubiquitous networks.
Virtualisation is an infrastructure management tool to provide consolidation and higher availability of systems; most of which have nothing to do with the cloud. The technology allows enterprises to use a single piece of physical hardware, to perform the work of many.
Cloud computing, is access through the Internet to business services running in a non-local environment. Cloud computing can certainly take advantage of virtualisation but cloud computing can be (and has been) accomplished without the use of virtualisation.
Unlike most IT projects, cloud computing and virtualisation impact almost everyone in the enterprise which means that non-technical people are involved in the implementation and deployment processes.
The risk of not knowing the difference between virtualisation and cloud computing can be a costly one as hype around these two technologies reaches a crescendo. Too many vendors are over simplifying the entrance into the cloud through a simple swipe of a credit card and hey presto you are now in the cloud.
Equanet firmly believe that a full feasibility study needs to be performed to define your virtualisation and cloud strategies before moving forward, failing to do so typically means confusion about strategies and over spend of budget whilst under delivering on capability.
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