Companies are more focused on their core business and as a result they are outsourcing a lot of the supporting services, such as information technology services, to outside providers. When outsourcing IT, one of the possibilities is to use Cloud Computing services. In this blog I try to introduce the concept of Cloud Computing, review outsourcing of IT and other interesting topics of IT.
Cloud Computing is about combining different technologies and procedures together and offering them as services to companies and private persons. Cloud Computing services expands dynamically and are used trough Internet. A company can build and combine different services from different providers in a way that suits the company best. Cloud Computing services come in a variety of options: software, pure computing such as database servers data warehouses and even full software development platforms can be provided as a service. Good targets for outsourcing from the business point of view are isolated processes, individual applications and information storage assuming that the core business architecture can support the outsourcing. Good base for collecting knowledge about cloud computing is to start with article from Berkeley (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf)
This blog offers a compact overview of Cloud Computing for companies, presenting the themes to be considered when moving over to using Cloud Computing. The keys to a successful cloud outsourcing are properly planned information security, a well-planned exit strategy and a flexible Service Level Agreement with proper metrics.
