Comments on: The Biggest Cloud Computing Pitfall

By: Jason Massie

Jason Massie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:23:48 +0000

You are correct. That is infrastructure as a service. I checked out their product line and it looks like they only serve linux vm's. Am I missing it?

BTW, I would like to think the company that I work for has a better offering than RackSpace. We do offer SQL 2005SQL 2008 on Win2003Win2008 in the enterprise cloud. http://terremark.com

By: Jason Massie

Jason Massie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:22:39 +0000

By: Solomon Rutzky

Solomon Rutzky — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:42:18 +0000

Has anyone looked into Mosso, the RackSpace cloud?

http://www.rackspacecloud.com/

They allow for .Net and SQL Server 2008 access. That does not seem very "locked". I am not as familiar with the Amazon cloud. I think they have a proprietary DB that is simplistic and not as relational but might allow for your own DB to be loaded since they give you a VM and I guess you could load SQL Server on it (however, I have not looked into this option).

By: Jason Massie

Jason Massie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:14:46 +0000

Security in the cloud is a big issue. However, the government is past it. They are doing IaaS plus IDS services and virtual firewalls. They released a large RFQ last week.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17914883/US-Federal-C...

By: johnsansom

johnsansom — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:24:39 +0000

Hi Jason, I agree with you and great article by way.

The lock in factor, in my opinion is such a prominent risk to a business, at least as the market currently stands, that it is a key deterrent to the adoption of cloud computing for established businesses.

For small start-ups and new businesses however, I think the rules of the game may be different. I would have thought that the initial setup costs become a very important factor here, i.e. it may be more cost effective for a small business to deploy a SQL Server solution in the cloud than to host say a dedicated server or an internal solution. I don’t have hard numbers mind due, just my thoughts on the subject.

Due to the business space that I currently operate in, my own personal reservation to Cloud Computing has to still be security. Only once this element has been addressed to my satisfaction will I begin seriously considering cloud computing at an enterprise level.

I would be very interested to know your thoughts on security in the cloud and what steps you think the current solution providers could take to move this area forward.

Cheers!

By: davesmithcloud

davesmithcloud — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:56:17 +0000

Everyone’s talking about Cloud Computing but you need to separate the fact from the gossip before committing to any kind of spend. Some of the UK’s top industry experts will be in London in December, discussing the key sector issues.
It’s the first Business Cloud Summit. Martin Bellamy, the government’s new cloud computing chief, plus Salesforce CEO Marc Beniof, will be among the star studded list of speakers. More details here: http://www.businesscloud9.com/summit

By: tcarothers (tcarothers)

tcarothers (tcarothers) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:32:11 +0000

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