Big Data Gold Mine in Cloud Governance and Automation

This difference in approach was so striking to me because during I have been working with salesforce.com for years, I remember how early versions of the offering often didn't quite make sense to me, or didn't quite align with what was required for enterprise consumption. I asked George Reese, a founding member and Chief Research Officer of enStratus how it is that the enStratus vision and service stands-out in terms of the depth and finely honed implementation. George stated that at enStratus, the decision to build a product for the enterprise and solve some of the hard problems early, shapes the overall production strategy.

In practice, this vision of "focuses on solving hard problems" bring the enterprise a powerful solution which not only assists the enterprise in "getting to the Cloud," nevertheless also, getting there with a solution that's comfortable and addresses the needs of multiple stakeholders. In terms of the Cloud ecosystem, the enStratus approach raises sea and removes a number of rocks and barnacles and hazards and enables everyone to start at a much higher level of maturity and to focus on the real business of their Cloud strategy or rather than on the bits and pieces.

While one might expect to have to sacrifice nuances or specific capabilities of specific Clouds, enStratus enables each Cloud's unequalled capabilities to be managed and instrumented and automated. Frankly, most enterprises don't have this kind of research for any of their before generation research, and what management tools exist require tedious and time consuming integration-the kind that doesn't always get done as willingly as one might expect.

In other words, it's much easier to move forward with an enterprise Cloud strategy by choosing a vendor just as Amazon that meets current needs, however without the concern that in eighteen months more suitable Cloud vendors will emerge. The flexibility of enStratus enables the enterprise to move forward with the Cloud but with protection from investing heavily in a couple of Cloud service providers, only to find that business units within the enterprise each may require different types of Cloud services, or that some units may use vSphere internally, yet also desire to move some application to Verizon / Terremark. These scenarios are very likely and even desirable and inevitable.

How could powerful data analysis

How could powerful data analysis and visualization capabilities enhance enStratus to create significant business value? I see significant possibility for analytics and data just as Corporate Performance Management metrics to unlock valuable information about a firm's innovation operations, project portfolio, and to monitor and guide such operations so as to realize an unprecedented degree of insight, management, and process monitoring over the enterprise research portfolio. Think for a moment if the Corporate Performance Management capabilities of a SaaS solution just as Host Analytics were to consume data available to enStratus as a result of enStratus's role as the management pane, however also for monitoring, and orchestration and capture of events and actions.

In other words, enStratus offers an organic, bottom-up approach to managing and monitoring and analyzing corporate research projects and resources. This capability contrasts with the rigid and bureaucratic approach to portfolio management tools just as HP's PPM tool. enStratus, by intrinsically capturing events and context across an enterprise's diverse research infrastructure, and research environments maintains and willingly queries the context of people, project, resources, events. And along these lines, the enStratus framework offers the world a new and powerful tool through which to understand and managie the entire technology portfolio. For the first time, Corporate America has the means to track the lifecycle of even the smallest project along the entire arc of its lifecycle. I don't think I've stated this obviously enough, given how important I thinks this is, so I'm going to try again.

As research by small teams seems to lead to more beneficial outcomes, enStratus becomes a perspective business can use to understand technology and to how to stimulate in other words than crush it in accordance with the latency of bureaucracy. This bottom-up, organic perspective could lead to insights as to what a firm's actual research portfolio that by nature associates people, projects, costs, and application releases, and yes, return-on-investment and business value and other presently unknown characteristics of the enterprise. I don't know how to begin to qualify the value of a tool for applying such technology, nevertheless it is giant. And this last aspect of the model warrants furthermore discussion. Part of the management and governance capabilities of enStratus that may not be willingly perceived by those outside of corporate technology managers, is that enStratus provides the layer that abstracts interfaces to third generation build and deployment services just as Puppet and Chef. Through this abstraction enStratus monitors, tracks, governs, and manages the continuous deployment of applications and "infrastructure-as-code."

In other words, a service like enStratus provides the abstraction and services required to Broker Cloud Services. And along these lines enStratus is positioned to enable arbitrage, swaps, futures, and all manner of trading to be performed with respect to Cloud Resources. This level of efficiency will continue to drive Cloud technology and competition, during services like enStratus grow to a critical mass, or Network Size that becomes difficult to displace, and in the extreme profitable in the way that enabling, orchestrating, brokering and managing a multi-trillion dollar Cloud marketplace seems like it might be profitable.

Graduate degree

Brian McCallion holds a graduate degree and is a keynote speaker at Wall Street community Cloud Computing events. As a result of publicity from such work, New York-based Venture Capital seek Brian's uniquely informed perspective on the business and research dynamics of the Cloud. As founder of one of New York City's early application service providers, a seasoned web application, and middleware architect, Brian's 20 year focus on business, applications, and infrastructure enrich and shape strategies to interpret, anticipate, and leverage what has now come to be called "The Cloud."Follow @BrianMcCallion