Comments on: Cloud based storage and content http://clausegge.com/2010/01/cloud-based-storage-and-content/ ICT & the world of Content Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:43:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cegge http://clausegge.com/2010/01/cloud-based-storage-and-content/comment-page-1/#comment-10 cegge Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:35:50 +0000 http://tek-design.com/clausegge/?p=148#comment-10 Let us consider the challenges of the many over the few although having the benefit of the experience of the big cloud providers might be good. Seriously, and conversely the task of selling cloud to the many is considerable. Vendors need to understand what it takes to convert cloud skeptics into early adopters. Let us consider the challenges of the many over the few although having the benefit of the experience of the big cloud providers might be good. Seriously, and conversely the task of selling cloud to the many is considerable. Vendors need to understand what it takes to convert cloud skeptics into early adopters.

]]> By: Martin Hingley http://clausegge.com/2010/01/cloud-based-storage-and-content/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Martin Hingley Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:41:31 +0000 http://tek-design.com/clausegge/?p=148#comment-9 Claus I enjoyed reading your article and thanks for referencing my post. It’s worth thinking about the comparison between: · The traditional CIO in a large organisation who has to deliver 100 or more application services to a few thousand users, and · The CTO of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft who has to deliver a single application to tens of millions of users Arguably the former has the bigger challenge.... not least because of the differences in software licensing, databases and access technology. Funding is typically harder to get and it's always harder to change on the fly than to build from scratch. Data centre consolidation has been a key subject for 10 years at least. Clearly there are now a number of new subjects to address if organisations are going to succeed in turning 'corporate' into 'private Cloud' computing. Best Wishes Martin Claus

I enjoyed reading your article and thanks for referencing my post.
It’s worth thinking about the comparison between:
· The traditional CIO in a large organisation who has to deliver 100 or more application services to a few thousand users, and
· The CTO of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft who has to deliver a single application to tens of millions of users
Arguably the former has the bigger challenge…. not least because of the differences in software licensing, databases and access technology. Funding is typically harder to get and it’s always harder to change on the fly than to build from scratch.
Data centre consolidation has been a key subject for 10 years at least. Clearly there are now a number of new subjects to address if organisations are going to succeed in turning ‘corporate’ into ‘private Cloud’ computing.

Best Wishes
Martin

]]> By: cegge http://clausegge.com/2010/01/cloud-based-storage-and-content/comment-page-1/#comment-7 cegge Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:46:24 +0000 http://tek-design.com/clausegge/?p=148#comment-7 Good points! More reasons why cloud looks like a straight forward strategic decision, but someone needs to pay attention to the details of successful migration. And what looks good on paper may not work in real life. Monitoring is also a good point, but was skipped in the post to shorten it. Good points! More reasons why cloud looks like a straight forward strategic decision, but someone needs to pay attention to the details of successful migration. And what looks good on paper may not work in real life. Monitoring is also a good point, but was skipped in the post to shorten it.

]]> By: Martin Harris http://clausegge.com/2010/01/cloud-based-storage-and-content/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Martin Harris Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:31 +0000 http://tek-design.com/clausegge/?p=148#comment-6 I think that other factors in the cloud space will come to the forefront over time. In particular application scalability, deployment, automatic scaling and finally but not least monitoring. Not many people realise that you can't just deploy an application to a cloud and expect it to run happily. Without care it may run but not scale. Applications backed with traditional databases can be a problem, Threading issues and general bad design can lead to issues and outages. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2009/jw-03-multicore-and-cloud-ready-1.html http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid201_gci1355058,00.html Deployment is becoming less complex with people like SpringSource making it very easy: http://www.springsource.com/newsevents/springsource-launches-enterprise-java-c Scaling and generic algorithms that can be tuned to tie in with a budget and profitability. i.e, please don't scale beyond some kind of profitability calculation. Monitoring in particular is going to be a challenge, I don't think anyone is doing anything interesting in this space yet. I think that other factors in the cloud space will come to the forefront over time. In particular application scalability, deployment, automatic scaling and finally but not least monitoring.

Not many people realise that you can’t just deploy an application to a cloud and expect it to run happily. Without care it may run but not scale. Applications backed with traditional databases can be a problem, Threading issues and general bad design can lead to issues and outages.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2009/jw-03-multicore-and-cloud-ready-1.html
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid201_gci1355058,00.html

Deployment is becoming less complex with people like SpringSource making it very easy: http://www.springsource.com/newsevents/springsource-launches-enterprise-java-c

Scaling and generic algorithms that can be tuned to tie in with a budget and profitability. i.e, please don’t scale beyond some kind of profitability calculation.

Monitoring in particular is going to be a challenge, I don’t think anyone is doing anything interesting in this space yet.

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