{"id":23014,"date":"2016-06-01T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=254882"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T10:45:02","slug":"should-public-cloud-be-synonymous-with-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/should-public-cloud-be-synonymous-with-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Public Cloud be Synonymous with Outsourcing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marathon<\/a>I caught an internet meme the other day that said, \u201cThe Cloud is just a computer somewhere else.\u201d\u00a0 But is that true?\u00a0 Is the cloud really all about outsourcing your infrastructure to somewhere or someone else?<\/p>\n

Popular opinion seems to indicate that\u2019s the case.\u00a0 But I would argue otherwise.<\/p>\n

The cloud is a way of thinking.\u00a0 Consider the ease with which you can swipe your credit card and walk away with a virtual infrastructure in the cloud.\u00a0 Pay for what you need now, and scale out to meet your growing demands as your business or projects expand.\u00a0 Who could say no to that?<\/p>\n

In my experience as an IT leader and solutions architect, this is what the cloud is really all about.\u00a0 Self-service provisioning; elastic, pay-as-you-grow infrastructure; and a service-driven operating model with all-inclusive, per-VM pricing.<\/p>\n

If we take that perspective, we see that the cloud is not just about outsourcing.\u00a0 In fact, all IT leaders should aspire to deliver the same agility, elasticity, and efficiency of the cloud model \u2013 whether their infrastructure runs on-premises or \u201cin the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that said, this has not always been feasible or easy.\u00a0 Traditional IT infrastructure is costly, complex, and rigid.\u00a0 It simply doesn\u2019t provide the same level of efficiency and agility as public cloud providers can deliver.\u00a0 And that\u2019s no surprise.\u00a0 Early in their history, pioneering service providers and technology giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, discarded the old IT model and built their own infrastructure based on key design principles of software-defined, scale-out, and x86 commodity hardware.<\/p>\n

Until now, visionary IT leaders who sought to deliver a cloud operating model on-site had little at their disposal.\u00a0 But that is changing.\u00a0 Breakthroughs in on-premises infrastructure like hyperconvergence are making it possible to bring the benefits of the cloud on-site, avoiding the tradeoffs of outsourcing their infrastructure and core business applications to the cloud.<\/p>\n

In many ways, hyperconverged infrastructure delivers the same efficiency and agility of cloud.\u00a0 It\u2019s based on the same design principles noted above \u2013 x86 commodity building blocks, software-defined, and linear scalability. However, hyperconverged infrastructure also provides the performance, protection, and resiliency enterprises require \u2013 all while reducing complexity and costs.<\/p>\n

In fact, in a recent independent study<\/a>, focusing on the cost-effectiveness and three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of hyperconvergence and the public cloud, hyperconvergence vendor SimpliVity was compared to public cloud vendor Amazon Web Services. The study found that SimpliVity\u2019s hyperconverged infrastructure solution offers a TCO savings of 22% to 49% when compared to Amazon Web Services. This shows that cost is no longer a barrier to creating a private cloud. Enterprises can choose what best suits their workloads, public or private.<\/p>\n

Overall, with hyperconvergence, enterprises can now outsource to the public cloud or decide to stay on-premises, all the while maintaining the agility, elasticity, and cost-effectiveness of the public cloud.<\/p>\n

Written by Rich Kucharski, Vice President of Solutions Architecture at SimpliVity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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