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

微軟負(fù)責(zé)云業(yè)務(wù)的執(zhí)行副總裁斯科特·古瑟里（Scott Guthrie）指出，即便對(duì)于那些有著最高風(fēng)險(xiǎn)規(guī)避要求的公司來(lái)說(shuō)，使用云服務(wù)的障礙也在逐漸消失。有一些公司此前在很大程度上都會(huì)拒云服務(wù)于千里之外，因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為其硬件脫離了自己的掌控。古瑟里在構(gòu)架大會(huì)上對(duì)與會(huì)人員說(shuō)，他發(fā)現(xiàn)，在全球最大的銀行中，75%如今都在使用微軟的Azure，而財(cái)富500強(qiáng)企業(yè)使用的比例達(dá)到了90%。

微軟Azure與亞馬遜的Amazon Web Services和谷歌的云平臺(tái)類似，是一個(gè)公共云，它匯集了龐大的服務(wù)器集群，網(wǎng)絡(luò)和存儲(chǔ)設(shè)備，可供客戶租賃，免去了客戶自行組建的煩惱。采用云服務(wù)的銀行的數(shù)量在不斷增長(zhǎng)，古瑟里提到了興業(yè)銀行這家法國(guó)大銀行，它是第一個(gè)采用云服務(wù)的全球系統(tǒng)重要性金融機(jī)構(gòu)，并選擇了Amazon Web Services作為云合作伙伴。

受?chē)?yán)格管制的大型銀行目前似乎已經(jīng)意識(shí)到，它們可以在公共云平臺(tái)上滿足大部分政府?dāng)?shù)據(jù)安全和隱私指導(dǎo)政策的要求，其效果與使用銀行內(nèi)部數(shù)據(jù)中心沒(méi)有多少區(qū)別。而且事實(shí)上，很多大型銀行使用公共云已經(jīng)很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間了，只是它們不愿公開(kāi)承認(rèn)罷了。

古瑟里表示，“在去年之前，沒(méi)有一家大型銀行愿意做第一個(gè)吃螃蟹的人。如今，個(gè)個(gè)都是爭(zhēng)先恐后。”

當(dāng)然，古瑟里宣揚(yáng)云服務(wù)的廣泛采用并非是無(wú)的放矢，但即便是那些并未給主要云服務(wù)提供商效力的人們也發(fā)現(xiàn)，云服務(wù)的采納度正在迅速增長(zhǎng)。去年，聯(lián)邦機(jī)構(gòu)以及與之合作的系統(tǒng)集成商稱，聯(lián)邦機(jī)構(gòu)對(duì)云服務(wù)的采納度驟然上升。美國(guó)企業(yè)界似乎也出現(xiàn)了同樣的態(tài)勢(shì)。

風(fēng)投資本公司Amplify Partners創(chuàng)始人兼普通合伙人Sunil Dhaliwal表示，“去年，云服務(wù)在企業(yè)中的受歡迎程度讓我大吃一驚。風(fēng)險(xiǎn)規(guī)避機(jī)構(gòu)的首席信息官如今更擔(dān)心的是不采用云服務(wù)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，而不是采用云服務(wù)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。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(zhuǎn)移并不一定只是唯一的出路。他指出，初創(chuàng)企業(yè)通常是最早也是最快采用公共云的機(jī)構(gòu)。但是隨著這些小公司的成長(zhǎng)并開(kāi)始注意到公司不斷增長(zhǎng)的云服務(wù)開(kāi)支，他們也有另外一個(gè)選擇，但這一選擇并不一定與亞馬遜、微軟或Google云服務(wù)有關(guān)，而是關(guān)乎到底是使用云服務(wù)，還是選擇自己構(gòu)建云服務(wù)器。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

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.