Our 2nd Report: Meeting the challenges of cloud computing – Accenture Outlook

http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/Accenture-Outlook-Meeting-the-challenges-of-cloud-computing.pdf

Our second Accenture report on Cloud Computing is about to be published!  As a taster the above link takes you to a short synopsis (Published in the Accenture Outlook Points of View series). I will post a link to the full report when it is out.

While in danger of providing a summary on a summary, this second report builds on our first “Promise of Cloud Computing”  report to analyse the challenges faced by a move to cloud. We identify the following key challenges:

Challenge #1: Safeguarding data security

Challenge #2: Managing the contractual relationship

Challenge #3: Dealing with lock-in

Challenge #4: Managing the cloud

Once you read the paper I would love to hear your views – please use the add comments link at the bottom of this section (its quite small!) or email me directly on w.venters@lse.ac.uk

I would also suggest you also review the whole report when it is out – much of the important detail is missing from this shorter synopses.

Why you can’t move a mainframe with a cloud • The Register

Why you can’t move a mainframe with a cloud • The Register.

 

This is a detailed technical analysis of the market for mainframes – discussing the infrastructure issues of moving Mainframes to cloud, or cloud to mainframes. The issues discussed are somewhat perennial - “greying workforce” shift to cheaper platforms of linux and java. But as the article attests it is the shear reliability and stability of mainframes which keeps them going – something those who proclaim the cloud will prevail must understand and respond to. With such guaranteed uptime of years  for transaction processing we cannot really envisage the Cloud for the core applications which run our information economy.