CloudTweaks: Overcoming Complexity and Dynamics to Move Data Centers to the Cloud
Originally published in CloudTweaks (January 31, 2012).
IT will never be the same. Analysts expect that IT budgets will not be growing in 2012. Consolidation through server virtualization has been a key initiative in many data centers focusing on lowering costs of operations and infrastructure. This was really the initial move for taking the data center from the physical level to cloud.
The enthusiasm for cloud computing comes from how it can enable businesses to quickly access hosted private and public resources on-demand, decreasing the time requirements and complexities that are typically associated with physical IT infrastructure. As cloud computing develops, the question companies now face isn't so much whether to migrate to the cloud, but rather what cloud service architecture to adopt?
Gathering the essential, configuration information that is critical for the cloud migration process is a huge undertaking, with literally thousands of configuration parameters per technology – some critical and some not. Today this information gathering process is largely manual. Modern configuration tools can greatly reduce the time it takes to gather this information and analyze what parameters to focus on to smoothly move from the data center to the cloud environment.
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