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Selecting a Cloud Computing Vendor Provider

Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 by Shedtips

Cloud computing was born as the main approach to reduce operating costs, manage complexity and stimulate the integration of business organizations. As more and more companies are turning to cloud computing solutions, the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and application developers must be prepared to deliver more solutions in the cloud

Cloud computing is believed to enhance the organization's ability to respond quickly to market needs. But before deciding to use cloud computing, it's good for business people to find out more behind the cloud computing ecosystem itself.

Cloud environment where applications are built will have a major impact on the quality of services offered by ISVs and application developers. So, before you as a customer enters an agreement or contract signed Seas computing solutions offerings, companies must ask the following questions:

1. Integration - How does the application vendor to ensure compatibility with existing IT infrastructure and how its development in the future?
To ensure fast installation and ROI, the vendor must be able to demonstrate the ease of integration with your existing systems and solutions that might want to be developed and constructed in such systems in the future.
Some of the aspects that you need to look at is this: according to need - in order to adapt to business needs changing and dynamic, attention to scalability - to achieve business growth is needed so it can be improved and increased as needed without having to make the process of upgrading the current system this, and compatible - with the other solutions on the market, such as other applications that are developed in the same cloud ecosystem that offers additional functionality of the system being used at this time arrives.

2. Performance: Performance and Service Agreement (SLA) what vendors can offer?
Depending on the processes involved, you must ensure that Seas applications are offered in accordance with business requirements in terms of availability, time of transaction, storage and performance.
To ensure security, seek transparency in situations where the possible breach of security levels, such as monitoring, operational management and performance, as well as disaster recovery plan (disaster recovery) a detailed vendor.
In addition, the related promise of transparency, scalability and performance, the customer must ask: what security practices and compliance that have been applied to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.
It is important sang ant. For example, procedural errors back-up data on a customer can make their systems can not be used in a long time, until the process of backing up is finished. And this brings substantial financial losses in terms of customer operations.

3. Services: Where the vendor server located?
When selecting a cloud computing service, which often forgotten factor considered is the existence of the server where the application is running and where data is stored. This has a significant impact on processing speed, lag time and network relay - so it will greatly affect the user experience.
A user in Thailand who request access to applications residing in the U.S. to send data from other parts of the world and are likely to experience delays in access.
For companies, this resulted in decreased efficiency - or worse - sales. To support growth in the future, companies should look for software vendors who rely on reliable cloud service providers and not constrained because of the performance.

4. Price: Warranty contract price and what kind of flexibility is given a vendor?
Cloud computing offers benefits in using and software purchases, but this depends on the speed of innovation and how to subscribe vendor providers. If the application will be used as part of the unity inherent and important part of business, make sure that your vendor can provide long-term price protection guarantee.
Also, make sure that the provider has the stability and credibility of the condition of the company that can run in a very long period of time

5. Cost Saving: Is infrastructure cloud computing service vendors you support the concept of sharing applications up to a certain level?
The concept of the use of shared applications commonly associated with multi-tenancy, i.e. the ability to serve multiple customers in a similar infrastructure.
This allows providers to run the IT infrastructure to improve efficiency in the homogeneous use of hardware (and perhaps also a license fee), reduce operating costs significantly, so customers will also benefit. And one more thing to note also, the application of multi-tenancy must also pay attention to the user's data security.
Multi-layer security that will be implemented should be able to be applied at all levels ranging from physical security, network / server / client, applications, data & information, and user identity.

6. Support: Support and Expertise offered any cloud service providers / vendors?
IT providers must have sufficient experience in implementing cloud technology and have the latest knowledge about the development of cloud computing in the future. To help developers and ISVs and business success of their initiatives.

Inference:
Cloud computing promises many things for all types of companies by offering access to a range of IT services - including infrastructure, software, security and collaboration platform - based on a subscription model or pay-per-usage.

However, choosing the right vendor to implement a system, software or cloud services, it takes knowledge of how SaaS applications are built and the ecosystem in which the application is built.

To overcome the challenges in the adoption of cloud computing, IBM is helping the vendors through various partnerships that are optimized for the workload of the cloud as well as supporting partners at every stage, from development to deployment, minimizing the risk of migration of clouds covering a flexible pricing model and parallel to the cost and revenue streams.
(quoted from detik.com)



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