Reading: "How cloud computing changed internal IT in 2009" IT Shops Planning "Run IT as a Cloud"

David at Infoworld www.infoworld.com

Strangely enough, cloud computing has turned out to be more about reviewing and modernizing internal IT than about how internal IT systems can be extended to the clouds. More simply put, we now try to replicate the value of cloud computing by modernizing and reimplementing our existing IT architectures using cloud computing concepts, such as self-provisioning, virtualization, elasticity, multitenancy, and yes, SOA.

Maps to what I'm seeing in our customers. The cloud is moving them to define a cloud operating model to increase business agility and reduce costs.

As they mature beyond virtualization, they run into the need to:

• standardize services
• deploy an actionable service catalog
• manage, report, track consumption (and maybe costs)
• deploy an IT storefront for self-service.