A panel representing CA, Microsoft, Verizon Busienss and Mezeo
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Nearing the end of sessions on Tuesday, Dan Kusnetzky, VP of research operations at 451 Group, and Agatha Poon, research manager for cloud computing at Tier1, moderated the panel discussion Enterprise and the Cloud, Breaking Down Barriers to Adoption.
The panel included Bert Armijo, VP of strategy for cloud computing at CA, Elliot Curtis, director of the North American hosting partner channel for Microsoft, John Tomjlanovic, director of product management for IT solutions at Verizon Business, and Steve Lesem, CEO and president at Mezeo software.
As I did with the panel session earlier today, I’m just going to pluck some interesting points from the discussion, rather than make a futile effort to transcribe what’s going on.
Armijo says a lot of enterprise expectations around cloud have a lot to do with time to market – they see the cloud as a means of getting applications to market quickly. And they have a lot of demands around creating self-serve IT solutions that can be managed by their own internal user base.
Curtis says Microsoft has seen a lot of enterprise IT shops looking at building clouds internally, agreeing generally with the Tier1 study data that puts “private cloud” and “public cloud” at the top of the list of types of cloud computing enterprises expect to be using in the next 12 months.
Tomjlanovic says he expects enterprises to move (maybe sooner than we think) to a model where customers are putting everything in the cloud, acquiring everything as a service. He says at every point along the continuum of cloud services, the entry point needs to be made simpler.
Lesem says the really big breaking wave of cloud storage adoption has been in disaster recovery and backup uses, and to a lesser extent what the company calls “personal storage” applications.
Asked what they would advise an enterprise try as a first step into cloud computing, the panelists seemed to agree that the best solutions are things that aren’t mission critical – usually something like test and dev. They suggest dipping a toe with something like that, and moving on from there. Lesem (representing the cloud storage segment) was very quick to suggest backup and DR.
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