There is a lot of talk about interoperability between cloud providers. Let me explain the use case. Enterprise A uses a cloud and wants to make sure that they can ’switch’ to another cloud provider. The reasons for switching can be many – costs, better technology fit with new provider etc.
A couple of important considerations [...]
Lots has been written about open source and cloud computing recently. Dion Hincfliffe recently wrote on a Cloud Computing and open source face off. James Urquhart generally does a great job on focusing on the customer. His recently post on Three debates that will benefit cloud computing started out well, talking about smb vs enterprise [...]
Derrick Harris’s post on cloud adoption is right on. Visibility and Security are issues. Many customers are doing POC, some are doing mission critical applications. The benefits of reduced costs and time to market/revenue are too compelling to ignore.
Robert Westervelt’s post on cloud security caught my eye – he talks about business execs putting the pressure on IT departments to “open the floodgates to the latest Web-based platforms, relaxing Web security policy.” Does this mean it’ll open the security floodgates in a dangerous way?
Yes, security is a concern when you move to the [...]
Read a recent article on Vishal’s talk at Interop – made interesting points that we agree on:
- Enterprise customers will claim that they have been doing private cloud computing. Have noticed that in our discussion w/ customers also. Even though this does fit w/ the virtualization part of the definition of privates clouds, it is [...]
