Nov 14, 2011 11:28 AM
Don Ferguson Welcomes You to Smart Architect
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Hello Smart Architect CA World attendees! Thank you for joining us. Today during this session at CA World we are taking an in-depth look at topics such as, Cloud , Software-as-a-Service, Security Management, Virtualization and Mainframe Management. And to continue the conversation, please let us know what are your top enterprise architecture initiatives and what topics or technologies would you like to see addressed in the Smart Architect group following this conference?
I would like to see a dynamc cloud with less resistance to expanding the system to
Different data centers
Do you think that cloud providers will see massive consolidation happening leaving just a few dominate players and would this be a good or bad thing?
consoldation natually occurs and will continue to. What is intrestering here is how quickly consoldatio is occuring and also the role that PaaS and SaaS influences this market over the next 1-2 years.
I think that we are struggling with moving to a private cloud computing model while we still have not gotten as mature as we should be within the traditional IT silos being able to provide a service oriented view. A lot of our organization still thinks of the cloud just as virtualization+. Maturing our IT organization is probably the biggest challenge for us.
Top issue is introducing cloud in a conservative environment concerned with control of corporate assets.
what level of control is required to make it interesting?
Top issue I see is the security policy barrier. Cloud may make good business sense but I see great reluctance cominng from CISOs. Allowing our most important asset - our data - to move outside our direct control will take a major policy shift.
The SOA era in the application space came and went with some success, but the service catalogue really did not happen and when it did, it was only for "basic" services that could not be orchestrated... why do you believe that CA's pitch will be different when it is expanded to the entire stack ?
I would like to see a discussion on the concepts of multi-tenancy and how they apply in cloud in Saas architectures. Have we put enough thought into this?