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Businessweek Cloud Smackdown
By John | April 10, 2008
Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”. I know this is not supposed to be a technical publication however there are far too many inaccuracies in this article to be ignored.
- Amazon’s EC2 cost is .010 per hour not .020.
- IBM, HP, and SUN have not long offered clouds. IBM just announced their “Blue Cloud†last year. HP and SUN have announced but not delivered cloud offerings.
- Comparing IBM’s Blue Cloud to Amazon Web Services is like comparing a mainframe to a laptop as the same market. IBM may from a marketecture perspective share the “cloud†name, however; they are not even close in the same market space.
- Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) (a.k.a. cloud) is not an easy customer interface. By design it is only an application programming interface (API). Therefore a customer must develop his or own program to use the service or use an upstream product (e.g., Enomaly).
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Topics: alaas, amazon, aws, blue cloud, caroline, cloud computing, ec2, ibm | 1 Comment »
April 11th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Nice catch, John! Some more:
What the hell does “The idea is that tech capabilities should hover over everything…” mean? Seriously, hover over what?No mention of the cost of storage or bandwidth? Or did he lamely try to wrap those costs in with the CPU cost to get the $0.20?While Sun and HP, at least, have had both grid and short-term lease services available, neither of those count as a “cloud” in the sense of hiding infrastructure; in each case the customer has to configure some element, including blasting out server images in many cases.
Still, I think he was trying to communicate the disruptive nature of these offerings, but wasn’t nearly as articulate as the general blogosphere.