2015/02/16 07:00:00

The main trends of the market of private clouds in Russia

The market of private clouds in Russia shows good dynamics, in the last two years in the market many new solutions "ripened", and projects become more and more, and they – it is more difficult. The most important trends of the market for 2014-2015 are further standardization of services, development of model of a hybrid cloud, increase in penetration of solutions with the open code and, in particular, OpenStack, and others.

Content

Careful approach
Standardization of "private" clouds
Market verticalization
OpenStack and open code
Hybrid clouds
- Five myths about hybrid clouds which you should know
Management of lifecycle of a cloud
Development of security systems
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Careful approach

One of the main trends of development of private "clouds" is connected with the weighed, step-by-step approach of customers to implementation of this concept. First of all test environments of new product development and services are automated. Further, if to look at how the western market of private clouds develops, control automation queue the industrial environment, and, at last, the third stage – automation of process of an output of the tested developments on industrial Wednesday follows, i.e. consolidation of two environments or full automation of process of selection of IT resources in the company, speak in CROC.

Standardization of "private" clouds

Softline notes growth of attention to the standardized ready offers of private "cloud" as service from providers or producers of iron.

With them specialists of Fujitsu are solidary: "There are industrialized set-up cloud solutions, i.e. customers can purchase own cloud most meeting requirements or requirements of a specific field of activity".

Buying preconfigured solutions, customers have an opportunity to receive ready cloud-infrastructure in the form of service from the specialized companies in data centers of providers or in the territory of clients.

"IT infrastructure is provided completely ready for operation, support and administration are performed by service provider. On it there will be no hidden costs and the complex circuit of payment – all possible expenses enter monthly payment", - explain in Softline.

Market verticalization

Top trend in the market of solutions for private clouds is quite certain field of their application in some vertical industries. So, for example, in the financial sector tasks of development and also problems of applications testing, both functional, and load become such area most often, specialists of AMT Group noted.

Also one of trends is indication of the most effective situation for creation of a separate cloud solution. It is, as a rule, large-scale upgrade of corporate infrastructure, or the serious reorganization of business processes leading to business reengineering and change of structure of information flows.

OpenStack and open code

It is possible to select several main units of private "cloud": it is the block of accounting and management (automation), the directory of services and user interfaces and virtualization in its all-inclusive sense (virtualization of servers, storage systems, networks and other). In addition to them other modules, less considerable on scale, can contain.

For the solution of a problem of automation of work of IT services in the mode of a "private" cloud products of many famous producers can be used, in particular, HP, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, etc., but recently the increasing demand receive solutions based on the open code (in particular, OpenStack, Eucalyptus).

"Here it should be noted that there is no unambiguously recognized leader among products of automation of process of selection of capacities yet. Each company independently selects solutions depending on requirements of combination of private "cloud" and the public resources constructed on these or those technologies", - experts of CROC note.

The weight of solutions with the open code for IaaS and private clouds constantly grows. According to analysts, until the end of 2014 OpenStack will become de facto one more IaaS standard. In fact OpenStack, the open platform developed by community of vendors where such giants as Red Hat, IBM, HP, Rackspace, SUSE, directly OpenStack Foundation and also VMware, Intel, Samsung and many others enter is the embodiment of the idea of cloud equality for all and canceling of cloud equality.

Supporters of OpenStack claim that it will be able to force out the full-function CMP platforms on commercial enterprises over time though so far it did not occur. OpenStack will be able to become a reliable open core of a big and successful ecosystem of commercial offers over time. And it is obvious that at this platform big perspectives, including in the Russian market.

Hybrid clouds

The hybrid cloud is the combination of at least one private cloud and one public cloud infrastructure creating an environment which provides access to a cloud and can dynamically be increased for management of an uneven load. Such field on a joint of external cloud servers to which so far not really trust also private clouds which already become current. Experts agree in opinion that in the future in the Russian market the segment of hybrid clouds as the most flexible and allowing to manage quickly resources and costs will grow.

Five myths about hybrid clouds which you should know

Myth 1: Private + Public = Hybrid

The primitive combination of infrastructure of private and public clouds will not give you this hybrid cloud. Moreover, as a result you can receive all set of risks and shortcomings of both solutions, without having purchased any advantages. Moving the protected data to a public cloud it is possible to break laws on data protection easily. At the same time migration of applications from public in a private cloud can lead to unexpected expenses. This hybrid cloud is a distribution of workload and management of accumulative and network resources that helps to reduce risks and to increase performance.

Myth 2: It is difficult to use hybrid clouds and to configure hard

If to use completely worked solutions, it is possible to simplify use of hybrid clouds. At the same time there is a possibility of the choice: technologies of standardization of a hybrid cloud (VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack) and the companies providing access to public clouds with which private clouds can interact. Professionally made solution allows to simplify three basic elements of development:

the complex integration and testing allowing to be convinced that all components work as it is necessary;
use of the convergent infrastructure considerably simplifying providing and solution deployment; and
the preset schemes for services with worker threads to automate initialization and selection of resources through a self-service portal.

Myth 3: A public cloud - the most economic solution

Actually, if to take tasks of management into account, risks and need of compliance to statutory requirements, then model of a hybrid cloud it appears cheaper in operation. It is too simple to violate local or global rules of protection, moving data or tasks to a public cloud. Laws and local requirements differ in the different markets, and some of them are so tangled that the companies just in case completely avoid public clouds. Therefore, most likely you will prefer to use a private cloud for some confidential tasks. In Germany, for example, very strict rules of storage and data processing. An optimal solution is use of the public and private clouds which are harmoniously working together and providing all necessary advantages.

Myth 4: Placing data in a cloud, you lose control over them

While the most aggressive suppliers of cloud services can complicate the procedure of receiving or migration of your data, correctly organized hybrid cloud allows you to retain control over them. Correctly configured hybrid cloud is capable to guarantee quick access to public and private resources, providing at the same time as control and transparency of processes for IT departments, and a possibility of self-service upon the demand of developers and users of applications.

Myth 5: It is very difficult - to understand what applications should be in a cloud

The organizations very often suffer both from excessively complicated IT architecture, and from the fact that they have no complete list of the IT of assets together with business applications. Having only the table and not having due methodology, to estimate impracticablly precisely where it is possible to use the application, not to mention in what cloud computing architecture to place it. In turn, the experts using the automated platforms for collecting and data analysis can provide the unrolled report for work of the application and help you to decide on further actions: move this or that application, consolidate, upgrade or in general to refuse its use.

Management of lifecycle of a cloud

In addition to virtualization and centralized operation all solution components relevant can be considered technologies for management of complete lifecycle of systems, to ensuring fault tolerance and balancing of loading, a possibility of provision of services on self-service today, the expanded reporting and integration with systems billing, consider in Fujitsu.

Besides, as specialists Servionika believe, clients will be more and more interested in receiving all range of services (not only cloud, but also in general work-related IT) from one provider, by the principle of "one window". Advantages of this approach are clear: administration simplification, individual approach to structure of services, reduction in cost of each service due to their "package" purchase, centralization of responsibility, ensuring uniform level of service for divisions in any regions – it is especially important to the companies of federal level.

Development of security systems

Dynamics of market development will depend on that how safe will become the solutions provided by providers. At once several episodes connected with "defense break" of large user resources – iCloud, Yandex, Mail.ru, – drew again attention of users and analysts to questions of information security. This segment of the IT industry will develop not less dynamically in the nearest future, than cloud computing, it closely is connected with them, consider in I-Teco.

In 2013 the Russian companies and private users spent for the software for data protection for 9.2% more, than the previous year. At the same time more than 50% of the market of the solution for information security occupy software for protection of end devices. Quite often personal files of the user are placed in a public cloud, and workers – in corporate private, and access to these resources is provided from the same device. According to Kaspersky Lab, only in 1 quarter 2014 1.13 billion attacks on computers and mobile devices of users and also 353 million online attacks were blocked.

Both private users, and the companies need to study new rules of life in the world where there are practically no secrets. Providers and their clients will develop rules of a reasonable compromise and joint protection against hackers.