ZDNet, Australia: Chief Operating Officer of Emerging Business Accelerator at Cognizant Talks About Cloud Deployment Among Asia-Pacific Enterprises

Sean Middleton says existing investments and contractual commitments with IT vendors are among the key barriers to cloud adoption. Across the region, he adds, there are further challenges where some countries have been more proactive than others in providing the underlying support and ecosystem for cloud services.

“Key areas lacking are the quality of internet bandwidth, intellectual property protection, regulatory requirements and policies set by governments, and the availability of power,” notes Middleton. “These factors contribute toward the economic feasibility for a cloud vendor to run its business in that country or region.”

Middleton also recommends that organizations run a thorough assessment of their required workloads before deciding whether a cloud solution is suitable for their business. These, he says, should include technical parameters such as architectural complexity, performance and availability requirements, and integration requirements, as well as business parameters including licensing and costs, stakeholder alignments, and risks and availability.

When asked whether there are business processes or applications that should never be deployed over a public cloud, Middleton says that this would typically depend on regulatory and compliance requirements governing that business in that geographical location. Also, it is uncommon for business requirements and applications based on highly specialized technologies to be offered via standard public cloud offerings, he adds.

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