Comments on: The Cloud Version of the Tortoise and the Hare http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-cloud-version-of-the-tortoise-and-the-hare/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-cloud-version-of-the-tortoise-and-the-hare/comment-page-1/#comment-9613 John Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:29:54 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1027#comment-9613 Roland, I think "a cloud on the ground level" is probably where the term fog came from. A cleaner definition might be a private vs. a public cloud. It's all a bit cloudy to me??? John Roland,

I think “a cloud on the ground level” is probably where the term fog came from. A cleaner definition might be a private vs. a public cloud. It’s all a bit cloudy to me???

John

]]> By: Roland Judas http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-cloud-version-of-the-tortoise-and-the-hare/comment-page-1/#comment-9607 Roland Judas Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:28:35 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1027#comment-9607 Do you think "The Fog" is an appropriate allegory? I'm not a big Carpenter fan so I should watch that movie again, to find out where the point is. :-) Or did you just mean "a cloud on the ground level"? Roland Do you think “The Fog” is an appropriate allegory? I’m not a big Carpenter fan so I should watch that movie again, to find out where the point is. :-)
Or did you just mean “a cloud on the ground level”?
Roland

]]> By: Jason Meiers http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-cloud-version-of-the-tortoise-and-the-hare/comment-page-1/#comment-8313 Jason Meiers Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:49:42 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1027#comment-8313 mentioning that my companies solution runs on the ibm cloud rather than on amazon gives greater comfort and easier sell to our customers management. i.e when asking the network folks to open ports to ibms network (blue cloud) for a site-to-site connection was np. on the otherhand opening ports to ec2 would create a blocker. it may seem to take longer for the blue cloud to arrive but then again good things do take time. just my 2 cents. mentioning that my companies solution runs on the ibm cloud rather than on amazon gives greater comfort and easier sell to our customers management. i.e when asking the network folks to open ports to ibms network (blue cloud) for a site-to-site connection was np. on the otherhand opening ports to ec2 would create a blocker.

it may seem to take longer for the blue cloud to arrive but then again good things do take time. just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Reuven Cohen http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/the-cloud-version-of-the-tortoise-and-the-hare/comment-page-1/#comment-8165 Reuven Cohen Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:20:21 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=1027#comment-8165 Problem with fog is you can't see what's coming. Typically fog is a hazard you try to avoid. Problem with fog is you can’t see what’s coming. Typically fog is a hazard you try to avoid.

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