Is Malaysia ready for Cloud?
Posted by ratatouille - on March 23rd, 2010 in Virtualization | 4 Comments »
With the current new buzz word in town every IT vendor from network switches, storage, server, software & the list go on and on …….is talking about “Cloud”. It is getting very “cloudy” to me & it seems going to rain. I just wonder how many of our local ISV know about it & getting their piece of software to ready for cloud. What about our SME & Enterprise? In January 15, 2010 Gartner conducted a survey
“Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of Nearly 1,600 CIOs Shows IT Budgets in 2010 to be at 2005 Levels”
Cloud Computing is listed as No. 2 priorities for FY2010 IT budget spending to reduce cost. Is this applicable to our local context? Are we ready for SaaS, IaaS, PaaS ? Where are we now? A few weeks ago I was making an inquiry to a local reputable accounting package where they are rank top 5 in terms of market share as far as I know. I send a mail to them asking whether they are interested to provide their solutions on SaaS platform since I was soliciting content for a solution provider. I do get an acknowledgment they receive my mail & will look into it & revert to me. But till today I have not heard anything since then.
This is what puzzle me is Cloud ready for Malaysia or is Malaysia ready for cloud?
4 Responses
No. It is sad to say that the entire CLOUD is a hype for local IT community now. Services on-demand concept is no new.
To cut every thing short, in order for user to consider this SaaS..etc, the CLOUD eco-system must be ready and mature, basic infra such as the existing weak / unstable telco quality must be improve first.
Ultimately, CLOUD technlogy will change the ICT “ball game”, there will be fewer choice for users and the cartel like service provider “bigboys” will determine the who get to use what services…for example..TNB / TELEKOM will determine whether East Malaysia rural folks get to enjoy the services…
I absolutely agree with you MK, in fact I will more believe the private cloud are going to be down the road due to the maturity of the existing infrastructure for corporate and Enterprise environment, which is more easier to adopt to cloud computing with infrastructure transformation which are not suggesting to replace the entire infrastructure.
I disagree that the Cloud is a hype.
But what are you going to do, if you need large processing powers on demand? In the past you needed to get multiple machines in a datacenter, which are idle when your customers are asleep or in holiday.
Nowadays, there are datacenters where it doesn’t matter if there is a terrabyte more or less allocated, and hundred thousands or millions CPU cores are available. A cloud allows you to create a distributed system, which you can scale per hour. At peak time you use 100 machines, in the night only one.
it will become more advance moving forward when the ISP link become faster and faster, which allow us to move the application from private cloud to public cloud or vise versa, and I agree with what you commend here MH