云服務將大行其道，企業已做好準備

本周出席舊金山技術大會的多名演講者指出，盡管熱衷于服務器的人士（那些不愿意將其計算工作托付給外界云提供商的IT人士）可能依然不在少數，但也變得越來越稀有。

微軟負責云業務的執行副總裁斯科特·古瑟里（Scott Guthrie）指出，即便對于那些有著最高風險規避要求的公司來說，使用云服務的障礙也在逐漸消失。有一些公司此前在很大程度上都會拒云服務于千里之外，因為他們認為其硬件脫離了自己的掌控。古瑟里在構架大會上對與會人員說，他發現，在全球最大的銀行中，75%如今都在使用微軟的Azure，而財富500強企業使用的比例達到了90%。

微軟Azure與亞馬遜的Amazon Web Services和谷歌的云平臺類似，是一個公共云，它匯集了龐大的服務器集群，網絡和存儲設備，可供客戶租賃，免去了客戶自行組建的煩惱。采用云服務的銀行的數量在不斷增長，古瑟里提到了興業銀行這家法國大銀行，它是第一個采用云服務的全球系統重要性金融機構，并選擇了Amazon Web Services作為云合作伙伴。

受嚴格管制的大型銀行目前似乎已經意識到，它們可以在公共云平臺上滿足大部分政府數據安全和隱私指導政策的要求，其效果與使用銀行內部數據中心沒有多少區別。而且事實上，很多大型銀行使用公共云已經很長時間了，只是它們不愿公開承認罷了。

古瑟里表示，“在去年之前，沒有一家大型銀行愿意做第一個吃螃蟹的人。如今，個個都是爭先恐后。”

當然，古瑟里宣揚云服務的廣泛采用并非是無的放矢，但即便是那些并未給主要云服務提供商效力的人們也發現，云服務的采納度正在迅速增長。去年，聯邦機構以及與之合作的系統集成商稱，聯邦機構對云服務的采納度驟然上升。美國企業界似乎也出現了同樣的態勢。

風投資本公司Amplify Partners創始人兼普通合伙人Sunil Dhaliwal表示，“去年，云服務在企業中的受歡迎程度讓我大吃一驚。風險規避機構的首席信息官如今更擔心的是不采用云服務的風險，而不是采用云服務的風險。人們不再像以前那樣談云色變。”

另一方面，他也提醒道，向云端轉移并不一定只是唯一的出路。他指出，初創企業通常是最早也是最快采用公共云的機構。但是隨著這些小公司的成長并開始注意到公司不斷增長的云服務開支，他們也有另外一個選擇，但這一選擇并不一定與亞馬遜、微軟或Google云服務有關，而是關乎到底是使用云服務，還是選擇自己構建云服務器。（財富中文網）

譯者：Charlie

審校 ：詹妮

There may still be a lot of “server huggers”— IT people who don’t want to trust any of their computing jobs to an outside cloud provider—but they’re getting harder to find, speakers at a technology conference in San Francisco agreed this week.

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president in charge of cloud, said the barriers to cloud are falling even for the most risk-averse regulated companies. These are the companies that previously shied away from the cloud in large part because they feel they don’t have control of their hardware. Seventy-five percent of the largest banks now use Microsoft Azure, he noted, compared with 90% of the Fortune 500 overall, Guthrie told attendees at the Structure conference.

Microsoft Azure, like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, is a public cloud— a huge aggregation of servers, networking, and storage that customers can rent instead of building on their own. In a sign of its growing adoption by banks, Guthrie pointed to Société Générale, a large French bank, was the first Global Systematically Important Financial Institution (GSIFI) to go to the cloud. Société Générale also named Amazon Web Services a cloud partner.

Large banks, which are heavily regulated, seem to realize now that they can meet most government data security and privacy guidelines in public cloud just as they can if they use internal data centers. And, to be fair, many of the big banks have been kicking the tires on public cloud for far longer than they are willing to admit out loud.

“Before last year, none of the big banks wanted to be first to sign on. Now none of them want to be the last,” Guthrie said.

Of course, Guthrie has a vested interest in painting this picture of widespread adoption, but even people who don’t work for the major cloud providers see that cloud adoption is growing fast. In the past year, cloud adoption in by federal agencies has soared, according to those agencies and the integrators who work with the agencies. The same appears to be true in corporate America.

“Enterprise cloud adoption has blown me away in the last year,” said Sunil Dhaliwal, founder and general partner with venture capital firm Amplify Partners. “CIOs in risk averse organizations are now more worried about the risk of not going to cloud than in the risk of going. Nobody feels anymore like they’ll get shot for going to the cloud.”

On the other hand, he cautioned against believing that this migration to cloud is necessarily a one-way trip. Startups have traditionally adopted public cloud earliest and fastest, he said. But as those small companies grow and start seeing their cloud bills grow, they face a choice, and that choice is not necessarily between Amazon, Microsoft or Google cloud, but between cloud and bringing those workloads back in-house.