{"id":192,"date":"2008-12-02T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/barriers-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:24:07","slug":"barriers-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/barriers-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Barriers to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spotted an interesting post over on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesurquhart.com\/2008\/12\/enterprise-barrier-to-exit-to-cloud.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Urquharts<\/a> blog.&#160; It echo&#8217;s a few conversations I&#8217;ve had recently about how enterprises might start to adopt cloud solutions and how they can prepare themselves for a future where services are delivered outside of their own data centres.<\/p>\n<p>I think that James is right, the existing investments companies have made in on-premise solutions and infrastructure are definitely a barrier to wholesale migrations to a cloud model.&#160; This does however provide a migration path for those organisations that are investigating cloud options for the provision of services and are looking to test the waters a little before jumping in.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment there aren&#8217;t too many services available from the cloud in a cost effective way &#8211; at least from the big players that large enterprises will look to deal with.&#160; At the moment I reckon that the demand for cloud type solutions far outweighs the markets ability to deliver them.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>As existing on-premise services start to age I think we&#8217;ll see a service-by-service migration to those cloud services that are mature and have a cost effective billing models.&#160; For some services this will work out well, but for others the market won&#8217;t be ready and the services will enter another life\/depreciation cycle as on-premise solutions.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see VMWare et al creating solutions that will help enterprises &#8216;cloud enable&#8217; these next generation of on-premise solutions.&#160; I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing quite how these solutions will develop.<\/p>\n<p>Check out James&#8217; full post over on his blog: <a title=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesurquhart.com\/2008\/12\/enterprise-barrier-to-exit-to-cloud.html\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.jamesurquhart.com\/2008\/12\/enterprise-barrier-to-exit-to-cloud.html\">http:\/\/blog.jamesurquhart.com\/2008\/12\/enterprise-barrier-to-exit-to-cloud.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spotted an interesting post over on James Urquharts blog.&#160; It echo&#8217;s a few conversations I&#8217;ve had recently about how enterprises might start to adopt cloud solutions and how they can prepare themselves for a future where services are delivered outside of their own data centres. I think that James is right, the existing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/barriers-to-the-cloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barriers to the Cloud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[45,35,191],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-cloud","tag-enterprise","tag-vmware","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}