{"id":6251,"date":"2022-03-10T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allieddigital.net\/in\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:25:17","slug":"more-choices-for-cloud-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allieddigital.net\/in\/blogs\/more-choices-for-cloud-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"More Choices for Cloud Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even today, only a small percentage of enterprise workloads run in the cloud. This is indicative of the fact that most organizations aren\u2019t fully ready for cloud adoption<\/a> yet. Among several reasons for keeping enterprise workloads running in \u201con-premise\u201d data centers, two that stand out are \u2013<\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0Physical control over data that is regarded highly valuable or sensitive, and<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0\u00a0Need for at-the-edge, low latency computing, for applications that require real-time performance<\/p>\n

Until recently, organizations constrained due to the above reasons continued to make investments into on-premise equipment and could not avail the benefits of \u201cas-a-service\u201d.<\/p>\n

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There is good news for such organizations, thanks to the innovative market offerings of \u201cOn-Premise Cloud\u201d (an oxymoron!) such as HPE Greenlake, AWS Outposts, Dell Apex, CiscoPlus, etc. Though there are architectural differences among them, all of them meet a common goal \u2013 bring a consumption-based\/cloud<\/strong>\u00a0model<\/strong>\u00a0to the enterprise, while preserving the benefits of\u00a0on premise data center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The vendors own the equipment deployed in customers\u2019 premises, but unlike a simple lease, the customer only pays for the portion of the total capacity that they use.<\/p>\n

Under the Greenlake umbrella, HPE packages their popular platforms such as ProLiant\/Nimble with software that includes a cloud operating system, management console and services bundle. HPE owns the maintenance and capacity-availability-performance management, providing all benefits of the cloud, financial and operational.<\/p>\n

AWS Outposts is Amazon\u2019s solution, brought to customers\u2019 premises in form of nearly ready-to-use 42U data center racks. AWS Outposts run the familiar AWS services such as EC2, EBS and Elasticache, etc., providing the benefit of utilizing AWS skilled resources from a large available pool.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, choosing the on premise cloud platform that best meets an enterprise\u2019s need isn\u2019t very difficult. A Balanced Score Card approach that employs criteria with their weights for factors such as current skills, current investments and future cloud roadmap can greatly simplify the decision process. Once the decision is made, getting a second opinion and implementation plan along with op-ex estimate from vendor-neutral implementation partner can add great value.<\/p>\n

The author Ashish Raghute is Vice President-IT at Allied Digital Services.<\/em><\/p>\n

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