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Service Option Comparisons
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Some choice is good. To much choice is confusing. Having clear priorities makes choosing easier. For example, making sure your proprietary data is secure is mandatory. Ensuring that your infrastructure is reliable seems important but is frequently compromised for cost. Time to market, agility and flexibility are often talked about but seldom achieved. Disaster Recovery makes sense but is not cost effective or practical with legacy solutions. Cost efficiency along with Transparency would make everyone happy but until recently has been unachievable. |
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Complexity is at the root of most of the compromises we make in service. Custom integration of 1000’s of components makes life difficult. Recently, service alternatives have become practical. Third party service providers integrate and operate technology leaving IT to focus higher up the stack. IaaS providers like Amazon along with SaaS provides like Salesforce.com and Google have demonstrated that third party services have value. Yet, not without compromise. It seems as if the market is ready to risk web services and SFA to third party control, but putting business sensitive or confidential information outside the firewall is just to risky. |
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Along with data protection, many applications need stable and reliable platforms. Outages are unacceptable. Recent outages from external service providers put revenue at risk. In addition, external services bring new integration problem that now includes data transport, creating data connectors, rights administration, accounting and security. Complexity is seemly unavoidable. This chart offers subjective views ranked as low, medium, and high. Up to this point, trade offs and compromises have been made in favor of one of the attributes on the left over another. Project or organization have to choose where to focus resources. To be fair, there is no “perfect” solution. Knowing that, ensuring flexibility and agility of choice is paramount. External services, as defined by those provided outside your firewall are one public outage or data breach from obscurity. Until data is encrypted at rest and in-flight with unbreakable encryption, the need for physical security remains. In an era where data espionage is state sponsored, physical security should remain the first line of defense. Autonomous Data Centers brings together the best of all worlds. Highly reliable infrastructure residing within your firewall autonomously operated and monitored augments your current infrastructure investment. Elastic pricing competitive with less equipped public clouds creates unparalleled agility and flexibility. Autonomous Data Centers, a service choice without compromise. Simple, secure, reliable, and elastic. |