Re: The Business of Building Clouds

Ray,

I guess this is nice-to-have feature to manage risk of cloud provider going down (just one possible scenario).

 

KS

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Ray Nugent <rnugent@yahoo.com> wrote:

This question is for all the platform folks out there. Just out of curiosity, how many of your customers are asking for these portability features? Is there really a pent up demand to move apps from one cloud platform to another?

Ray

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From: Larry Ludwig <larrylud@gmail.com>
To: cloud-computing@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 5:44:17 AM
Subject: RE: The Business of Building Clouds

 

In particular he says "a developer should be able to move between Joyent, the Amazon Web Services, Google, Mosso, Slicehost, GoGrid, etc. by simply pointing the "deploy gun" at the cloud and go." I think he nailed it dead on with this statement.   

Hi Reuven,

I've read that article also,  I too think it would be great to move service between different providers.  I think reality will set in how different each cloud provider will be.   Yes I think you will find some application to convert between providers, but I also think that will be the key differentation between providers. One provider will only have feature X, while another provider will only have feature Y.  In order for each cloud provider to exist, they has to be some barrier of entry from other providers and also a method to not make it too easy for customers to leave.  Otherwise why would a cloud provider exist and offer service?  Geolocation of the cloud isn't enough of a reason.

-L

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