Matthew Finnie, CTO Interoute
The consumer app stores like the Apple store and Google’s play store have been hugely successful in getting new apps into and onto the devices that are now ubiquitous. Over 25Bn applications have been downloaded since they started with a staggering 40M a day being distributed globally.
cloudstore.interoute.com is open for business!
The explosion in apps in smartphones, tablets and laptops has however complicated life for most IT managers and builders of services. The arrival of cloud computing and software as a service has further caused CIO’s no end of headaches as end users browse to a web site and find they can get what they want from an internet hosted CRM tool. The users scratch their head as to why it’s taken years, days and weeks locked in workshops for their internal project to still be floundering. The IT guys mumble about data integrity etc.
Why can’t it be like the smartphone or tablet is the chorus from the users, pretty obvious when you think about it.
Developing apps for a consumer these days has very clearly defined parameters. If you take belt and braces approach you would develop your app for iOS, OSX, Windows, Android and HTML 5, the latter to mop up the rest. The enterprise is simply not the same beast. If you are exceptionally lucky and blessed you will have one homogenous WAN and clean Data Centre strategy. In the last 10 years of selling services to enterprises I have yet to find one. Most of the time they have computing assets scattered across offices, remnants of old IT in odd places and technology investments that they wish they could back out of. The simple truth is the challenge for the enterprise is tad more complex than the Smartphone.
At this point the pure Internet plays leap up and down and screams, “Not so, not so, you don’t want to use that ridiculous private networking, control argument it can all be on the internet”. This self-centred ranting simply isn’t true and frankly only transforms a disparate set of assets across a private WAN into one that is a disparate set of assets scattered across the global in shared environments all bound together with firewalls. Frying pan, fire is a thought that springs to mind.
That brings me to what we have done with the Interoute CloudStore. Interoute has a long history of providing managed MPLS WAN services to the great and good of Europe and the globe, we also have one of the largest communication platforms in Europe connecting to the world’s 7Bn smartphones globally through 200+ partners. Last year we built computing into the network in the form of the Interoute Virtual Data Centre; fully automated private and public computing and storage. This year we’re taking the network, communications platform, storage and the Interoute Virtual Data Centre integrating the whole thing together and adding applications and appliances that allow you to build your perfect infrastructure with all the control, security and performance you get from the real world. This is infrastructure without compromise. You get full network separation as you do in the physical world. You are not constrained to one location and as we’ve built VDC into the network you can have it in as many of our sites as you like and still only pay for what you use. And best of all, the network between these sites is free.
We are big believers in the idea of the app store; Interoute CloudStore has just made that possibility a lot easier.
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