Comments on: Cloud Pontification

By: Techworld

Techworld — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:10:50 +0000

[...] diskwalificaties voor het label ‘Cloud’ op een project. Je kunt er zeker over twisten (hier is flink wat kritiek van een andere blogger te lezen), maar het is tenminste wel [...]

By: Bert Armijo

Bert Armijo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:20:11 +0000

Alexis -

That’s the understatement of the day. From first hand experience, I can tell you that once users experience the freedom of mobility there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.

By: John

John — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:37:20 +0000

Wait a minute… I don’t have a job…

By: John

John — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:36:52 +0000

I totally agree. If you look at the template based vendors (3Tera and Rightscale) this is where the separation of the service starts to appear in cloud technology. The cluster of different images become one portable image that can be moved between clouds.

If you guys can pull of an rPath kind of thing for something like that I will quit my job and come to work for you guys right now.

John

By: alexis

alexis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:22:43 +0000

The ability to move across clouds is fundamental and has consequences for the services offered. I believe cloud vendors who do not enforce lock-in will do well here.

By: John

John — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:24:32 +0000

I know I sound like a 3Tera junkie however, the brilliant thing about their architecture is you can just pick up the complete service (multiple servers) and move it to another cloud. Rightscale has a similar architecture and if/when they allow their templates to run on multiple cloud providers they will be in a class of two along with 3Tera.

By: BXL

BXL — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:35:28 +0000

Very good analysis.

“If you need to rearchitect your systems for itâ€¦ Its not a cloud.”

3tera re quires no architectural changes nor code changes.