The future is… cloudy?
About The 451 Group
Independent technology industry analyst company
Focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation
700+ customers across Vendors Investors (150 VCs and
80 Investment Banks) Service-providers
(SIs, consulting, etc.) End users
Offices in New York (HQ), Boston, London, SF 80+ total employees w/ 35+ analysts
Tier1 Research covers hosting, colocation, content delivery, Internet and enterprise services
Introduction to CloudScape
CloudScape draws on the unique expertise of The 451 Group, with its ten year history of insight into grid, utility, and cloud
computing, and Tier1 Research, the leading analyst company covering hosting, internet infrastructure and IT services.
CloudScape: Who is it for?
Technology Vendors
Enterprise IT end users
Hosting, managed and IT service providers
Technology Vendors
Enterprise IT end users
Who will be your customer tomorrow?
Do you need to change your overall strategy due to the changing customer?
Partnerships/OEM’s/Direct? Key technology requirements?
What services will your customer need?
What will it take to convince them that moving some or all of their workloads into the Cloud is a safe, cost-effective solution?
What kinds of service-level agreements will be required to be a full infrastructure-as-a-service provider for a hosting company supporting an enterprise?
What workloads are best for cloud deployment?
Which type of cloud is the best?
Where and how can your organization get started?
Which suppliers are likely to be your best bet?
The Cloud Codex: Our Definition
We began with a blank whiteboard and a vision of IT that seems to be hovering just over the horizon – ready to be actualized but tantalizingly out of reach right now. The path to achieving that vision in a reasonable time frame must begin with answering a set of basic questions, and that’s what the Cloud Codex is all about.
These questions include:
The Cloud Codex is available online now: http://www.451group.com/intake/cloudcodex
What features must be developed in order for cloud computing to reach a level of general deployment?
What are the different deployment models for an enterprise cloud?
Which cloud services will providers offer?
What are cloud services?
What are the criteria – hard and fast – for defining a cloud?
CloudScape: Deliverables
30 – 40 short form reports per month
Monthly digest of short form reports
Market Sizing Reports/Data
10 to 11 long form reports per year
All analysts contributing to this service are available for advisory services
Webinars
Published Long-Form Reports
Cloud Computing Market Monitor Overview (market sizing)
Managing the Cloud: Performance Managing the Cloud: Automation Cloud Infrastructure Services 2:
Here Come The Heavyweights
Identity in the Cloud: Winds of Change Forecast
Journeys in the Cloud Cloud Storage: Enabling the
Distributed Datacenter Cloud Infrastructure Services 1:
Managed Hosters
Long-Form Reports Coming Soon
Cloud Computing: Enterprise Selection SaaS and the Cloud PaaS and the Cloud Cloud Codex 2010 Cloud Computing Market Overview Elevation: Data and Application Security
Rising Importance in Cloud Computing Archiving in the Cloud Mobile Cloud Computing
The evolution of cloud computing
Cloud criteria vs. architecture
The Cloud Spectrum
Cloud formations and user adoption
Four pillars of cloud computing
Sample Report
15 enterprise end user deployments Cloud model Cloud criteria Business drivers Deployment present/future Scope (IaaS, PaaS, SaS) Key vendors Innovations
Benefits
Inhibitors
Looking ahead
Implications
Sample Market Forecast
Source: Tier1Research estimates
Sample Survey Data Specific concerns about Cloud deployment
Source: The 451 Group, XXXX