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We want to implement innovations faster
IT is not our core competency, we want to outsource it
We will able to compensate peak loads better
We expect shorter project durations (Time to Market)
On the one hand, consumer services from the Cloud are totally inadequate
for business purposes, and at worst pose a significant risk for the enterprise.
As contractually defined availability guarantees, service level agreements
(
SLAs), are critical. For most companies, the contract must also regulate how
customers will get their data back upon fulfillment of the contract, stating in
which format the data will be returned to them and how the Cloud service
will provide access to the data. Businesses are subject to numerous legal
requirements and obligations, by law they are responsible for your data.
Those who entrust their data to a third party data are subject to the terms
and conditions of commissioned data processing.
1.1.2
The Cloud as pathfinder to the digital future
It is often reported how we are now living in the information age, but in
reality, the information age is only just beginning. Everything we have seen
in the last 50 years of rapid IT development is nothing compared to what lies
before us.
Until Henry Ford introduced the assembly line production of the Tin Lizzy, of
which only a single, standardised model existed, cars were handcrafted and
individually assembled, no two cars were alike. The same can be said of
current, often very small datacenters, or data closets, in mid‐sized
businesses. Here we find old and new, large and small, thick and thin servers
side by side, often overloaded, sometimes idle. No trace of energy
efficiency, the power consumption for cooling and backup systems is just as
high as for the server itself. The software has become outdated, it has often
been contracted out to a software developer to be individually programmed
in order to distinguish the company from the competition. Upkeep is
proving to be a complicated and time‐consuming, and if the software
developer disappears from the market, a further development is
unthinkable.
In contrast there are the Cloud datacentres, equipped with the most
advanced servers, uniform virtualised machines, working at full capacity,
scalable and expandable depending on demand and with the best energy
efficiency, comparable to Ford's standardised Tin Lizzies. That's how you
