What datacentre managers really think about cloud

Quocirca recently completed a technology project for Oracle that solicited 919 datacentre managers' views on cloud computing.

How respondents viewed the building of private clouds

When looking at how respondents viewed the building of private clouds, there was a marked match with where they were already. Those who already had a homogeneous environment - for instance, Intel-based Windows - were looking for a cloud platform that was homogeneous.

Those on a heterogeneous platform, just as a mix of Intel-based Windows and Linux, perhaps with Risc-based Unix, were looking for a cloud platform that could abstract from the hardware to provide a homogeneous cloud environment at the software level.

The US is in the vanguard because most cloud activity is from vendors based within the USA itself. Germany and Switzerland take an architectural approach to computing, and for many, cloud computing provides...