Rapid enterprise cloud deployments
In a recent interview with GigaOm, Marten Mickos noted that there is a lot of installations in China. On the face of it, it does not seem particularly remarkable since China seems to have a veracious appetite for just about everything else.
The obvious benefit of public cloud
In a recent conversation with a VAR in China, I was told the challenges of deploying new IT systems. Money, everything else being equal, is rarely the problem. Buyers understand the importance of ERP, CRM, and other enterprise solutions as their growth accelerates both domestically and internally. However, over the deployment phase, the physical installation of things like fiber optic lines and configurations for routers, VM, etc. suck up time and attention of highly skilled engineers which are difficult to find and retain.
My question to the VAR was why not use a public Cloud architecture and solve all these problem with a single stroke? After all, this is exactly how SalesForce.com has become a multi-billion dollar company by solving exactly these type of problems.
The subtle problem of public cloud
It turns out that many business owners in China are reluctant to let any of these data go into any public network for fear of being sniff'ed. (Interestingly, this is not a uniquely Chinese concerns, given DT's attempt at fencing its Cloud operation from the prying eyes of the US.)
Looks like private cloud will proliferate in China for a while yet.
Links
* Eucalyptus refreshes IaaS platform: http://gigaom.com/cloud/eucalyptus-refreshes-iaas-platform-isnt-dead-yet/
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