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At last month\u2019s\u00a0Cloud\u00a0Business\u00a0Summit<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0New York, hosted by Saugatuck Technologies, one presenter remarked that none of the new solutions coming out of Silicon Valley these days is on-premises software. It\u2019s all cloud now. Should it be?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a huge issue for software providers, whether everything should be delivered as a cloud service, versus installed and run at customers\u2019 sites. For a vendor, the move to cloud is fraught with risk \u2014 going from guaranteed streams of license revenue to lower-cost monthly subscription rates, for example. Plus, software providers need to evolve to become data center operators \u2014 a different type of business, with more demanding, time-sensitive requirements than simply servicing their own staffs. Does every software publisher really want to get into the data center business?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Add to that it\u2019s a lot easier for cloud customers to bolt to another provider, or at least gradually work another one in. In fact, it seems many leading cloud vendors are happy to still maintain a place for on-premises software.<\/span><\/div>\n
In a qualitative\u00a0survey\u00a0of\u00a0representatives\u00a0of the 16 largest vendors names in IT, conducted by IT Channel Insight, eight out of ten \u201cdo not believe that on-premise software vendors should shift their overall strategy to cloud.\u201d The assumption, says report author\u00a0Richard Muscat Azzopardi, is that \u201cthose companies who were made by selling on-premise software still see cloud as a great addition to the portfolio rather than a replacement.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
This finding is also a reminder that most of the world\u2019s enterprises \u2014 especially the mid to large-size ones \u2014 still run the bulk of their core applications and systems on on-premises machines. It\u2019s interesting that the vendors \u2014 who want to give the impression that everything in the world now resides in the cloud \u2014 provide such candor. Indeed, no matter how compelling the cloud proposition may be, and no matter how much of a megabucks savings is promised and might even be realized, the cost of moving major applications and systems off existing servers is a steep one.<\/span><\/div>\n
There are costs\u00a0of migrating from an on-premises system to a cloud-based model. A recent\u00a0cloud cost analysis<\/a>\u00a0from ISACA outlines some of them: rewriting applications to operate in a virtualized\u00a0environment, reformatting data to suit SaaS provider formats, setting up federated identity and access management, and\u00a0implementing processes to manage the cloud. In addition. there may need to be\u00a0additional\u00a0bandwidth investments, as well as hardware investments so\u00a0infrastructure components may need to be upgraded to integrate with cloud services.<\/span><\/div>\n
And let\u2019s not even get started with the costs of hiring consultants to help with the transition and new\u00a0configurations. There is also the training IT and business users will require to get up to speed with the new system. \u00a0Don\u2019t forget the compliance reviews, and, finally, there may be costly business disruptions.<\/span><\/div>\n
So, there\u2019s a good case to be made for maintaining an on-premises software business for the foreseeable future \u2013though it\u2019s\u00a0likely\u00a0to continue to shrink while the cloud-borne share will keep growing. Vendors may push for cloud, but as with any new systems migration, it\u2019s a process of years, and even decades. Rumor has it there are still a lot of DEC VAX systems, circa 1990, still running mission-critical applications.<\/span><\/div>\n
But when the migration decision is made, cloud is an acceptable option now. Lately, the cloud industry leaders\u00a0Azzopardi spoke with have noticed a change in attitude toward cloud among their corporate clients. There\u2019s a great deal of confidence in the cloud model that wasn\u2019t there even just a couple of years ago. \u00a0Business users \u2014 versus IT departments \u2014 are especially\u00a0comfortable with the cloud\u00a0approach\u00a0 As Orakwue Nnamdi, vice president of infrastructure cloud services at Dell put it: \u201cTechnology vendors are increasingly selling to lines of business and actual end users instead of the IT organization or CIO. Employees can directly buy technology (cloud) without huge capital investments or corporate approvals.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
There\u2019s also a convergence with the mobile computing\u00a0phenomenon,\u00a0 as observed by\u00a0Eran Farajun, executive vice president at Asigra:\u00a0\u201dA cloud service can be deployed to and accessed from anywhere as long as there is an internet connection. This was perfectly defined by \u00a0the consumerization of IT (BYOD), cloud computing is helping to blur the lines between personal use of technology and business use of technology. By having information stored in the cloud and accessible anywhere, the device used to access that information is less important.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
So, in answer to the question posed in the title of this post, \u201cIf you ran a software company, would you go all-cloud,\u201d the answer may be yes for a new startup reaching out to new markets. \u00a0But \u00a0again, unless you are selling apps through an app store, being a software company now may also means being a data center provider. And for established vendors, it\u2019s a bit more complicated.<\/span>

<\/span>By:\u00a0Joe McKendrick<\/span>
Original Article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joemckendrick\/2012\/12\/12\/if-you-ran-a-software-company-would-you-go-all-cloud\/?ss=cloud-computing<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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At last month\u2019s\u00a0Cloud\u00a0Business\u00a0Summit\u00a0in\u00a0New York, hosted by Saugatuck Technologies, one presenter remarked that none of the new solutions coming out of Silicon Valley these days is on-premises software. It\u2019s all cloud now. Should it be? 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