What we hear constantly from enterprises is NOT all or nothing. Rather, we get from them is how do we burst out to use the cloud when we need it. Then the issues are the old ones of security, data transfer, scalability, application modification etc. The cost for this does not seem to be really high on the priority list given the reduced time to deployment and the low touch that it affords.
Ray
Ray
From: MBoyarski <Mike.Boyarski@gmail.com>
To: Cloud Computing <cloud-computing@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:48:04 AM
Subject: [ Cloud Computing ] Cloud-as-a-Feature?
I read this a few weeks back(http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/11/
the_cloud_as_a.php)(I don't know Nic) describing a cloud-as-a-feature
concept that is slowly evolving(Mathematica was referred). Maybe this
has been discussed in here already, I looked and couldn't find so here
goes. The use case essentially talks about embedding AWS(in this
example) as a service inside a traditional on premise application.
For certain analytical computations, a grid of computing is required
for a short period of time. This sounds compelling for the enterprise
and I wanted to know if others are seeing this as an edge case or
something more.
Oracle tipped their tow around running backups to AWS. I guess you
could call that a feature leveraging a cloud. Its sort of
interesting, I guess.
It seems like the cloud has risen to it's current prominence and value
due to its web or "one time" workload scenario, ie. "The Digg
effect". Or, the one off event like the NYTimes pdf conversion process
(or some similar event where they processed some absurd amount of
documents from one type to another). I know there are apps being
develop as we speak, totally built for the cloud so we have that to
look forward to.... But for the enterprise, it seems like I'm reading
a lot of all or nothing discussions about Cloud usage. Enterprises
don't like big shifts. They've already spent their $$ on something,
they want it to last for as long as possible. But if certain
analytical applications or functions or end of year computations or
even a smaller shop looking at an unusual workload could manage these
spikes "within" their on premise application, I could envision the
value of the cloud taking an intermediate step to the enterprise.
Just curious to hear if others have heard of similar cloud features
being built "into" existing or traditional on premise applications? I
think MSFT has laid out a future here, but curious about other
vendors.
- MB
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