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cloud is an evolution in computing technology which ofers companies anortunity to run applications beyond their own server rooms but businessesneed to take responsibility or their data.

A

lthough cloud com-

puting is relatively

new, the concept o

sharing computer

services has been

around or decades,e technologies that enable the

uch as virtualisation, hosting

tware as a service (SaaS) have

vailable or some time.d computing reers to the de-

o computer services over the

et, as an alternative to run-

tware on your own computer

centre.

hin the IT industry this topic iscated by too much jargon and

ny vendors with diering de-

s to help categorise their par-

implementation as cloud.

BASDA trade group is tryingbeyond terminology to ocus

mples o how our members areg real businesses transorm

y they work with this technol-

What is cloud?The cloud gives users the ex-

ibility o mixing and matching

the most appropriate services rom

their service providers. They can be

accessed 24/7 rom any Internet con-nected PC or mobile device, making

collaboration with customers and

business partners that much easier.

Cloud providers share capacity andsupport resources across a communi-

ty o users, and economies o scale re-

sult in lower cost o ownership com-

pared to traditional systems. Servic-

es are usually provided on a monthly

subscription basis, and can be easilyscaled up or down as necessary.

The IT headaches o managing the

inrastructure or keeping sotware

versions up to date are all handled or

you.Cloud providers gear themselves

up or continuous operation and willoer a comprehensive service level

agreement, with guaranteed levels o

availability in advance o the typicalin house IT set-up.

Taking responsibility While the cloud oers sig-

nifcant advantages over on-

premise it does carry potential risks

to be considered. You must carry out

due diligence to ensure steps are tak-en to saeguard your data in terms o

availability, security, privacy as well

as legislation like the data protection

act.Customers need to consider data

ownership, and access rights or mi-

gration i anything goes wrong at the

supplier.

It is important to realise that cloud

computing is a natural evolution otechnology, rather than some new

thing to be avoided out o hand.

Although some organisations will

embrace the cloud, others will adopt

a hybrid approach using these serv-ices to extend rather than replace ex-

isting systems.The shared data centres o the

cloud can also oer a greener ap-

proach to IT.

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g applications and data be-

he connes o the corporate

room and in to the cloud a-

massive nancial savings, o-eviously unimaginable exi-

nd brings the type o applica-

hat were once the preserve o

rises in to reach o more mod-E budgets.

is not to say that keeping mis-

itical applications in the cor-

server room or within a trust-

s guarded network will come

nd. However, a new age o com-is emerging where web sites

plications can be launched in

es on the cloud on servers that

rented or weeks or months,

than bought up ront.

scas one o major advantages

Mark Taylor, Director o Mi-s Developer and Platorm

believes is o most appeal to

business that are already using cloudcomputing.

The cloud lets you set up a pres-

ence all around the world or very

little cost compared to the huge ex-

pense o setting up servers and inra-

structure yoursel in multiple datacentres, he says.

Its giving SMEs global geographic

dispersion or a cost they could only

have dreamed o previously. Plus you

can scale your presence up and downso you can add extra capacity or a

particularly busy time, such as when

year end accounts are announced,

you can increase capacity and then

take it down aterwards.Its all on a pay as you consume

model and saves a ortune compared

to increasing capacity permanent-

ly in your own data centre. Although

you need to anticipate and reservethat extra capacity in the cloud at

the moment, I believe were moving

to a stage where services will just be

elastic and expand as theyre needed

with people just paying or extra ca-

pacity automatically as it happens.

Standards nddThe main hurdle which cloud oper-ators will need to overcome, though,

Taylor believes, is opening up rival

operators systems so the cloud runs

along the same principles and busi-

ness models no matter who is man-

aging the hosting.Its very early days but there needs

to be a lot o work done on standardi-

sation, Taylor points out.

There are not only diferent ofer-ings out there around pricing but al-

so people are going to wonder what

happens i they want to move their

data. There are diferent cloud serv-

ices and you cant just pick up your

application or data and just move itaround between them.

I think this area o standardisa-

tion and portability is a huge issue

where the service providers have to

improve and its also an area o op-portunity or third parties to provide

platorms which allow the same ap-plication to work with more than one

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It is not only businesses that are be-

ing attracted to the exibility and

cost savings o cloud computing, the

Government has given the new ap-

proach a major role in its new ICTstrategy it believes will save more

than 3.2bn.

Trials o a Government Applica-

tion Store started early this month

which, it is hoped, will lead to a com-

mon platorm or civil servants to ac-cess applications that could eventu-

ally be hosted, alongside other sot-

ware tools, in the cloud. The apps

store, it is believed, could save the

Government 500m by 2020.The proposed cloud service, or G

Cloud as it is being reerred to, is ex-

pected to account or around hal o

the proposed 3.2bn total savings.

The massive cost reduction shouldcome mainly through drastically re-

ducing the number o servers and

supporting inrastructure the Gov-

ernment requires.

Ian Osborne, Director o the Digit-al Systems Knowledge Transer Net-

work at Intellect UK, is one o a largeteam o volunteer experts who are

advising the Cabinet Oce on the G

Cloud. He believes the next ve years

or so will see some very interesting

initiatives as ocials decide what

the nal service should look like.Ordinance Survey has already

shown how it uses cloud to service a

peak o 9m users, he says.

So its going to be a very useul tool

or departments to manage peaks intrac, such as HMRC at the end o

January.

A lot o sensitive data may not be

suitable or the cloud, because o se-curity concerns and diferent depart-ments would have to still keep their

records separate to comply with data

protection and privacy laws.

Nevertheless, the G Cloud is a very

exciting opportunity to save the Gov-ernment a huge amount o budget.

For citizens, Osborne believes,

one o the biggest advantages o the

G Cloud could be allowing diferent

departments to share non-sensitive

data so paper work is reduced andprocesses sped up rather like an ex-

isting service which allows stored

passport photos to be used or driv-

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Gt af o th cloud ithh right rvic mix

e is one concern that all busi-should be ully aware o be-

ey consider taking advantage

loud, it is security.

orate server rooms are nor-

encased by a strong rewall tothat only the people who are

ed to have access to data and

nd the remainder are locked

his is the mainstay o busi-

omputing and so the sugges-at the corporate server room

be slimmed down, or even re-

by a move in to cloud servers

erious security issues.

a lvlh any computing inrastruc-

ere are several options availa-

ompanies and security is cen-

the eventual decision an or-tion opts or.

e simplest extreme, the speed

ing space on a server within

ew minutes and a ew clicks o

se is normally the most proneo the cloud. It is typically tak-

ompanies that want to do de-

velopment new applications in the

cloud without the delay o commis-

sioning their own server or who wantto host public inormation, such as a

website. Here there is a clear trade o

between low cost, instant access to

server space and the level o securi-

ty on oer At the other extreme, however,

there are IT specialists who can ad-

vise on bespoke security measures as

well as cloud providers who can oer

varying levels o security on servers

in the cloud but, o course, this willincrease the cost o a project.

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As ever with the cloud, though, thereis little standardisation and so a

group o consultancies, regulators,

cloud providers and security busi-

nesses have came together at the

start o the month to work on a globalCommon Assurance Metric (CAM).

This resulting system o securityscores is hoping to get around the

problem that most measures o secu-

rity protection are normally linked

to particular bespoke products and

so can make rating applications timeconsuming and oer a result which

cannot be easily compared to other

products.

The group o experts is expected to

have the outline o the CAM ready by

the end o the year. When it is com-plete it will allow security vendors

and cloud operators to have their

services rated so potential clients

can make inormed decisions basedon an industry-wide standard.

According to Giles Hogben, Net-

works Security Policy Expert at the

EUs inormation security agency,

ENISA, the global standard is a wel-

come move.The CAM work is essential, he

says. The number one barrier to adop-

tion o cloud computing is assurance

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the cloud provider? This is a prob-lem or providers too - answering a

dierent security questionnaire or

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: How can companies encourage their IT departments to be more exible at theme as ofering budgetary savings?r:Talk o the cloud has moved beyond rousing conerences speeches and is now aue in the board room.

ears ago businesses werethe cloud beore carrying

oe dipping pilots last year., is going to be one where

ts are going to be launchedTaylors words,the cloud is

to be used widelyas well as

e end o last year The Cloudet up as an independent

anisation or potential cli-rts to network and discuss

big issues overhanging the

at people are not sure yetoud is as transormationalexperts believe it to be. In

Cloud Circle surveyed moreng businesses at the end o

n ve elt it was just hype,ved it be the real deal andwere yet to decide.

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e o its speed,exibility and

low cost,Taylor is convinced the benetswill become clearer or all to see.

The people who are using the cloudtoday tend to be using it as toe dipping,

theyre seeing how they get along withusing it beore they do anything more

major, she says.Its very hard to get people to talk

about projects theyre working on be-

cause things are sometimes a little bitsensitive.A lot o companies see their

earlypilots on the cloud as giving them acompetitive edge and so they dont wantto shout about it.

This year,though,I think were goingto get a lot more real lie use o the cloud

which will lead to a lot more case studies which will convince people that it reallycan live up to the hype.

Lttle a lareSo ar,in Taylors experience,it has been

companies at either end o the spectrumwho have adopted cloud computing,or

at least used it or specic projects to seewhat theycan learn.

Were seeing mass adoption by start-

ups,particularly in e-commerce,where

they can instantly see the attraction ohaving a large,exible inrastructure

which can expand or contract with theirneeds, she says.

At the same time,large enterprises areusing it,not across the entire company

but on a department bydepartment basisor specic projects.

One o the big attractions or them is

that its so much quicker and more ex-ible.It can take months within a large

enterprise to requisition a developmentserver but with the cloud you can be upand running in minutes.

Also companies that need to expandor a particular event,or which have sea-

sonal peaks - such as the travel or insur-ance industries - theyre starting to ex-periment with the cloud because they

want to scale up and down in response tomarket demand.

Secrt keO course there are still legitimate con-

cerns over regulation and security in thecloud,although Taylor believes some othese will start to be addressed as more

companies,o all sizes,take to the cloud.

Security is an obvious concern orcompanies but were nding that busi-

nesses are looking in to setting up privateclouds or sensitive material, she says

Many are also looking into a publicor even hybrid ofering so they can pick

what inormation is public and which isprotected better.

When youve got huge companies like

Glaxo Smith Kline and,o course,the Gov-ernment looking into and starting to use

the cloud,it should make companies re-alise that security concerns can be ad-dressed.

Hence, with a strong push rom theboard room or IT to make savings wher-

ever possible, the drive to move moreprojects into the cloud is going to buildup considerable momentum in the year

ahead,Taylor believes.Companies are looking to IT to become

more agile and cost efective and this isexactly what the cloud ofers and deliv-ers.

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Thecompanyrecentlyfollowedthesethreepower-housesintotheRed HerringTop100

afterbeingnamedamongEuropestop private

technology enterprises.

EGSisone ofthe Cloudsquietsuccessstories.But,whileit lackstheglitzof somedotcombusi-

nesses,the companyhasgeneratedheadline

newsbymakingmulti-million-poundsavingsfor

largeorg anisations.

Putsimply,EGSreducesits customersoperating

costsdramaticallybyautomatingback-oce

businessprocessesviatheCloud.

Inareassuch ascorporatepurchasingandinvoiceprocessing,EGSreplacesinecientand

expensivemanualprocesseswith Cloud-basedalternativesenablingtechnologytodo thework

inafractionofthetimeandforafractionofthe

cost.ItsknownasBusinessProcessAutomation

orBPA.

EGSteamswithtradebodiesandpartners,such

asBTand Capita,tohelpambitiousorganisa-

tionsachievemulti-millionpoundsavings.In

somecases,theend-to-endprocessingofasingletransactioncanbe reducedfrom50-60

tojustpennies.Asan example,oneof EGSs

customerswillsave2.5 millionby 2012through

theautomatedmanagementofhundreds

ofthousandsofsupplierinvoicesusingEGSsCloud-basedtools.

Weautomatedour rsttransactionin2001.

Severalbillionpoundsworthof transactions

later,we feelasthoughwe reallyunderstandBusiness ProcessAutomation ,saysPeter Whent,

ChiefExecutiveat EGS.Wehaveaccrueddecadesof experienceinour eld.Itsthatexper-

tisethatgoesinto ouraward-winningCloud-

basedplatformthat40,000usersacrossmore

than120organisationsrelyonto helpthemsavemillionsof poundsayear.

The urgency for businesses to make savings

during the economic downturn has meant

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automation. For others, its about overcoming

stubborn obstacles that have derailed previous

attempts.

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hey are using it to save lives.ever, at the RNLI the cloud is

tly being used to run a system

arns when a person has all-

a small shing boat or has an

ency situation. The Man OverGuardian (MOB Guardian) is

rialed in the cloud, on Micro-

Azure service, in addition to

hosted in a conventional da-

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s the person goes underwater,

and contact with the sensor is lost, an

alarm is raised via satellite and the

stricken sailors position is trackedvia the on board GPS (satnav). This o-

ers crucial protection or lone sher-

men.

Longer shing vessels are already

monitored and have saety systemsinstalled by law, explains Peter Brad-

ley, Operations Manager at the RNLI.

This technology is already a prov-

en lie saver because it not only alerts

us to an incident, it tells the rescue

crews where to nd the person, sothey can go straight to them.

Bradley explains that the purpose

o mirroring the service in the cloud,

beore hopeully migrating it ully,is to reduce the cost o on premiseservers and oer greater scale or

less money.

At the moment its run tradition-ally on servers in a data centre and

has a capacity o 10,000 boats, he

says.The problem is to add an extra

one boat above that, wed need to add

the same inrastructure again and

double up, with capacity or another

10,000 boats. Thats very expensive,

so by putting this service in the cloudwere going to be able to save a lot o

money at the outset but then also

well be able to scale up without huge

upront costs.

Cost is very important or the RNLIbecause o its charitable status. The

MOB Guardian service is current-

ly heavily subsidised and the emer-gency service needs to be able to oer

it to shermen (and perhaps othersmall boats in the uture) at an a-

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The recession has hit shermen

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shermans going to put their handin their pocket or anything at the

moment, its going to be to mend

their nets.

Hence, to save lives, it is imperative

the service can be run as ecient-

ly as possible so the nal cost can bebrought down.

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n business is mobile and so it

itable that the major next ad-

or the cloud is to tailor serv-

r mobile phones, or more par-ly, smartphones.

h computing giants Micro-

pple and Google all vying to

urther inroads on Blackber-

minance in smartphones, it is

kable that cloud applicationsmain mainly limited to PCs

ptops.

ever, rst, two major obsta-

ve to be overcome; proprietary

ms and security.ormer is arguably the one giv-

teams the biggest headache.

c applications can be written

h o the various platorms, but

one should an IT team chose?d Akka, Managing Director o

Sotware believes the question

d companies to consider pub-

g applications on platorms

can then publish to multiplerds, rather than write a dier-

plication or each standard.s dicult enough already or

ms to chose which cloud pro-

hey go or because there arelarge operators with dierent

platorms, he says.

Then, i you add the complication

o several dierent smartphone plat-

orms, you can see its going to give

them a real headache. Thats why I

believe mobile is really going to en-

courage businesses to develop appli-cations rst o all on a single platorm

which can then publish that applica-

tion on the competing cloud stand-

ards as well as the smartphone hand-

sets they want it to run on.

Sc, cIn the eld, the eedback rom mobile

application specialists is that there is

increased interest in hosting appli-

cations in the cloud, so long as secu-

rity concerns can be overcome. Jean-Philippe Bechade, CEO o Mobile Dis-

tillery, claims this is now possible, al-

though it will impact the cost o the

service.

In act, as i to prove the point, thecompany has just helped a client

launch a cloud service through which

people can send money to relatives

abroad through a mobile phone.

The cloud is indispensable or

companies who want to launch aservice and then grow their capacity

as the service takes o, he says.

So as business and consumer ac-

tivity is moving to the mobile phone

were getting a lot o interest whichwe think will start to be turned in to

commercial activity this year, like

the money transer service.

Obviously security is a big con-

cern, particularly i youre dealing with something like money trans-

ers.

We can add security to services

but clients need to be aware that it

accounts or around a third to evennearly a hal o a projects cost.


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ern business practices, or-

ganisations now need to be more

ware of threats to informationecurity. Mobile technologies

uch as smartphones, bluetooth

nd laptops mean companies

ould be more at risk from databreaches. However, cloud still of-ers fantastic opportunities for

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Better pricing control - pay per click

provides predictability o IT costs which

are synced with business growth and al-

low a CAPEX to OPEX transitionFreedom -establishing environments

to support initiatives can now be done

in relatively short times with exibility

around sizing, up or down. This provides

agility to the businessEnhanced collaboration - between

the business and its employees, partners

andsuppliers.

Fear of the unknown - uncertainty

around security, service level agreements,

new commercial and engagement models

and unclear risk proles.Readiness - inability to be a good

cloud-buyer. Existing operating models

are tuned or managed services/product

procurement. New IT skills, evaluation

techniques and architectures are needed.

Confusion - rom hardware and sot-

ware vendors with their cur rent rev-

enue models under threat .

Formulation of cloud strat-

egies within enterprises as case

studies emerge rom early adopters

and the response o hardware and

sotware vendors becomes clearer. The

invention o new business operating mod-els to take advantage o the increased agil-

ity, leading into new collaborative models as

community clouds are deployed. Data man-

agement is likely to become a ocus areawith accurate data segregation being neces-sary to ully leverage cloud.

The cost benefits o cloud-based applica-

tions are well documented but I believe that

exibility is one o the most compelling rea-

sons or their adoption. Downtime throughtravel can be reduced and teams can work

with colleagues even when theyre

away rom the oce, transorming

business. Accountants, or example,

can work more eciently, collab-

orating with clients and workingthrough data without even having

to leave their oce.

Caution about cloud solutions mir-rors that o other technologies that are now

mainstream, including the web, email and

even Microsot Word. This is oten driv-

en by ear o lost control and security so,

when considering the options, particularlyi youre outsourcing core systems and data,

it pays to be prudent. You must always ask

potential partners detailed questions about

security and the guarantees they ofer or

things like availability.

I think we will see the take-

up o the cloud grow dramaticallythroughout 2010, partly driven by mo-

bile devices that have larger screens,

such as the iPad. Our recent research shows

that 82 per cent o UK nance proessionals

already use some sort o web-based applica-tions in the workplace, and rom April 2011 it

will be compulsory or all businesses to le

both company accounts and tax returns inan electronic ormat, which can only deep-

en the trend.

The conventional model

es being delivered by an in-

is shiting. The cloud allows

orms o IT services rom ar

real-time, ofering low cost

best-in-class innovationFor those entrepreneu

keen to exploit mod

they are no longer con

legacy architecture,

esses o their in hou

Effective IT delivery is e

vival so sourcing that deliveties requires a great deal o t

multiple complex supply c

tended relationships wher

cant be ully outsourced w

legislation, business model

ment skills. Building in redusaes will help but most bus

it is ar better to be a ast a

early adopter.

Cloud services will be

continual demands to red

will drive greater risk taki

are seeing some FTSE100 perimenting with services

le desktop managed service

lessons will be relearned, sp

well thought-out enterprise

a must have i you are to

range o technologies availacludes the cloud.

uestion 1:w is the cloud transforming

siness, and why?

uestion 2:hat are the main factorslding back cloud adoption?

uestion 3:hat developments should weexpecting this year, andyond?

Ron Brown

Director Cloud Computing,

EMEA, CSC

Hugh Scantlebury

Director, Aqilla

Jon Dakin

Director, Boxwood

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