Red Hat: Cloud won't drive open-source adoption
Published: 11 Mar 2009 09:33 GMT
...evaluating portfolios of service offerings. "Now is the time to begin understanding the options... Cloud services will be essential tools for addressing the biggest business demands of IT," Morris said.
In a recent IDC Asia-Pacific end-user survey, 89 percent of respondents said they had heard of or were familiar with cloud computing. However, the majority remained hesitant to jump on the platform, preferring instead to wait for success stories to emerge, he said.
Ken Pepple, Sun's Asia-Pacific chief technologist and principal engineer, said the industry still requires traditional business processes, such as auditing, to be applied to the cloud before mainstream adoption can happen.
"The cloud will also have to prove itself before it will hit it big," Pepple said, in an interview with ZDNet Asia.
Chief information officers will also have to choose which layer along the cloud stack they want to procure their apps, he said.
A pure IaaS will provide a lot of flexibility, but users will be left with the job of administering and running the applications. Further up the stack, a SaaS option will take away administrative concerns, but will leave the user with less flexibility to customise the appplications, Pepple explained.
Furthermore, the cloud will have to provide more software options for organisations. "I don't see anyone doing telco billing yet," he said.
"Companies moving to the cloud have to realise it may not be an IT cost issue, but a huge business cost in reorienting processes.
"And, not a lot of companies will have the appetite to deal with that right now, in these economic times," Pepple noted.
While Red Hat's Feldmann does not believe the need for open standards — to better leverage cloud applications — will directly affect open-source adoption, others expect the cloud to fuel the need for open source, as companies search for better cost efficiencies. A survey by Evans Data also indicated that open-source developers were planning to build for the cloud platform.
Credit: Cloud won't push open source adoption from ZDNet Asia
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