Private cloud can prevent end runs around IT
If IT shops want to prevent users from going to the cloud, they have to bring the cloud to the users.
That was Microsoft's message to customers Tuesday as the Microsoft Management Summit kicked off with a preview of System Center 2012. When IT shops don't provision services to end users fast enough, Microsoft officials said, the users will get what they want from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud or perhaps from Windows Azure.
But a private cloud model, enabled by new self-service capabilities in System Center, can make IT delivery so efficient that users won't need to make an end run around IT, Microsoft said. There are many pieces to Microsoft's overhaul of its management platform, but the key for the user is a project code-named "Concero," a self-service portal for deploying business applications without having to deal with the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure.
