Infrastructure as a Service

While 2011 was certainly a big year for the Infrastructure as a Service space, particularly when it came to the major shift among enterprises towards the adoption of private cloud computing architectures, it appears that 2012 is poised to be the best year yet for the cloud market.

One of the main drivers for this success? The fact that the market is finally educated and comfortable enough with cloud technology and what benefits it affords to move forward with Infrastructure as a Service platforms, according to officials at Hexagrid (News - Alert) Computing.

“The 2012 cloud computing market will likely continue to trend towards private cloud computing,” Dave Rokita, vice president of technology operations at Hexagrid, told TMCnet. “The industry will start to see the limitations of virtual server farms in both scalability and service delivery.  Hexagrid expects that many organizations will transition from hosted virtualization to more complete cloud computing offerings.”

Hexagrid, a company that was founded in 2008 with the premise of offering a platform that can “dramatically reduce” companies’ IT budgets, develops Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing solutions that empower companies to build public or private clouds customized for their unique organizational structures, profitability objectives and policy requirements. Hexagrid accomplishes this through its flagship cloud platform, VxDatacenter.

In honor of the New Year and the thought process that 2012 will be huge for the Infrastructure as a Service market, Rokita sat down with TMCnet to come up with some New Year’s resolutions for this tech space.

Rokita’s first hope is that the fight against complexity surges forward. 

“In the words of Randy Bias, ‘complexity does not scale.’ The resolution would be to continue the fight against complexity,” Rokita said. “Designing architectures that 'never go down' are both costly and complex; and therefore the antithesis of what Hexagrid believes cloud computing to represent.  Hexagrid continues to design in favor of common consolidated architecture designed to quickly recover from failure.”

So what else is on Rokita’s list?

1.  Rethink redundancy.  Tremendous cost savings can be found by designing applications to recover quickly in favor of 100 percent uptime.

2.  Audit your applications.  Clouds can fail.  Will your applications survive?

3.  Strive for repeatability in your datacenter practice.  Strive for mass-production in favor of custom built.

4.  Stop thinking about hypervisors and start thinking about workloads, it will make migration to the cloud easier.

5.  Take another look at network attached storage; it has come a long way.

For more on Hexagrid and how the Infrastructure as a Service enabler fared in 2011, click here.

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