Cloud Computing Business Considerations - Logic2020英文版本.pdf

Cloud Optimization – Expanding Capabilities, while Aligning Computing and Business Needs A framework for making business decisions about cloud computing. Sean R. Cunningham President June 1, 2010 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Financial and Business Considerations 2 Service Level Agreements (SLAs) 8 Data Considerations (Sensitivity and Regulatory) 9 Geopolitical (Restrictions and Requirements) 10 Latency 11 Deployment Speed 12 Conclusion 14 ©Logic20/20, Inc. 2010 All Rights Reserved. Introduction Cloud computing provides improved resource optimization and enhanced capabilities for the enterprise. Successful enterprises fully use the resources they Fully understanding the range of potential cloud have to deliver superior products and customer computing benefits requires a broad perspective that experiences. In the past, many enterprise organizations recognizes that real computing resource optimization gained economies of scale and computing efficiency aligns computing capabilities with business needs. through concentrating hardware resources—primarily So, in addition to uptime, organizations can now servers in data centers—and leveraged virtualization achieve agility, integration, scalability, accelerated to further improve efficiency. Containing costs and deployment, better utilization, and transparent maximizing uptime often overshadowed everything cost accounting. else. The result? A constrained organization and an IT department and business on very different paths with The key to making the most of cloud computing very different goals. o