\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As usual with tweetchats hosted by CloudCommons, five questions are presented a few days in advance of the event. This time around, the questions were:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As far as Question #1, the position of most people in the chat session this time was that Public Cloud is mature enough for certain applications in enterprises today. The technology certainly exists to run applications \u201cin the cloud\u201d but regulations and policies may not be ready to handle an application\u2019s cloud deployment. Another interesting observation from the tweetchat was that most enterprises are indeed running applications \u201cin the cloud\u201d right now. GreenPages<\/a> considers applications such as Concur and Salesforce.com as running \u201cin the cloud.\u201d And of course, many organizations large and small run these applications successfully. I\u2019d also consider ADP as a cloud application. And of course, many organizations make use of ADP for payroll processing.<\/p>\n Are enterprises mature enough for cloud computing?<\/strong><\/p>\n Much of the discussion during question #1 turned the question on end \u2013 the technology is there, but enterprises are not ready to deploy applications there. GreenPages\u2019 position is that, even if we assume that cloud computing is not yet ready for prime time, then it certainly will be soon. Organizations should prepare for this eventuality by gaining a deep understanding of the IT services they provide, and how much a particular IT service costs. When<\/em> one or more of your IT services can be substituted for one that runs (reliably and inexpensively) in the cloud, will your company be able to make the right decision to take advantage of that condition? Also, another interesting observation: some public cloud offerings may be enterprise-ready, but not all public cloud vendors are enterprise-grade. We agree.<\/p>\n Should every business have a public cloud strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of the discussion here pointed to a \u201cyes\u201d answer. Or that an organization\u2019s strategy will eventually, by default, include consideration for public cloud. We think of cloud computing as a sourcing strategy in and of itself \u2013 especially when thinking of IaaS and PaaS. Even now, IaaS vendors are essentially providers of commodity IT services. Most commonly, IaaS vendors can provide you with an operating system instance: Windows or Linux. For IaaS, the degree of abstraction is very high, as an operating system instance can be deployed on a wide range of systems \u2013 physical, virtual, paravirtual, etc. The consumer of these services doesn\u2019t mind where the OS instance is running, as long as it is performing to the agreed SLA. Think of Amazon Web Services here. Depending on the application that I\u2019m deploying, there is little difference whether I\u2019m using infrastructure that is running physically in Northern Virginia or in Southern California. At GreenPages, we think that this degree of abstraction will move in to the enterprise as corporate IT departments evolve to behave more like service providers\u2026 and probably evolve in to brokers of IT services<\/a> \u2013 supported by a public cloud strategy.<\/p>\n Security and legacy applications<\/strong><\/p>\n Two questions revolved around legacy applications and security as barriers to adoption. Every organization has a particular application that will not be considered for cloud computing. The arguments are similar for the reasons why we never (or, are just beginning to) virtualize legacy applications. Sometimes, virtualizing specialized hardware is, well, really hard and just not worth the effort.<\/p>\n What\u2019s the best way to get started with public cloud?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cJust go out and use Amazon,\u201d was a common response to this question, both in this particular tweetchat and in other discussions. Indeed, trying Amazon for some development activities is not a bad way to evaluate the features of public cloud. In our view, the best way to get started with cloud<\/a> is to begin managing your datacenter as if it were a cloud environment, with some tool that can manage traditional and cloud environments the same way. Even legacy applications. Even applications with specialized hardware. Virtual, physical, paravirtual, etc. Begin to monitor and measure your applications in a consistent manner. This way, when <\/em>an application is deployed to a cloud provider, your organization can continue to monitor, measure, and manage that application using the same method. For those of us who are risk-averse, this is the easiest way to get started with cloud! How is this done? We think you\u2019ll see that Cloud Management as a Service (CMaaS)<\/a> is the best way.<\/p>\n Would you like to learn more about our new CMaaS offering? Click here<\/a> to receive some more information.<\/p>\n By John Dixon, Senior Solutions Architect A few weeks ago, I took part in another engaging tweetchat on Cloud Computing. The topic: is cloud computing ready for enterprise adoption? 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