Cloud: Platform Shift or Game

Changer?
Clive Longbottom,
Service Director
Quocirca
The dynamic business
Invention

Innovation

Optimisation
The dynamic business
Invention

Innovation Risk
Optimisation
The dynamic business
Invention 20%? 10%?

30%? 50%?
Innovation
50%? 40%?
Optimisation
 An application vendor’s view

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The death of the enterprise
application
What is the purpose of a business?

Business Imperative

Business
Processes

Tasks
 The process triangle
Value Risk
Bring them together...
Business Imperative

Business
Processes

Tasks

Functionality

Applications

Platform
 The process viewpoint…

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 Process and task
I need

Outputs

Inputs

I provide
 Cloud Schematic
Large
partner

Dedicated Main public

links Shared private cloud services
cloud

Hybrid Remote or small

cloud partners, clouds and
other service providers

Main private
Central Organisation
(Standard data centre/Internal Shared commercial
cloud services
private cloud) private cloud
 Cloud as a platform shift
Technical Business
Result Results

One Multiple
Application Functions

Virtualised
One server
Platform

5-10% utilisation, 50+% utilisation,

Static, Dynamic,
Error prone, Adaptive,
Non-continuous Highly available
 How cloud is a game changer

Shared infrastructure
Speed

External
data

Flexibility
Domain expertise
 What cloud isn’t
The internal data centre isn’t dead

Scale up isn’t dead

One app per server isn’t dead

Cloud is not a Silver Bullet:

It has its part to play,
It has its strengths,
It has its weaknesses
 Conclusions
• Cloud is a platform evolution
– But is also a major game changer
• Organisations have to be more dynamic
– IT cannot be a constraint
• Functional computing is the future
– The enterprise application is dead