Re: CEO's head in the Cloud
- From: Craig Hagan <hagan@xxxxxxx>
- To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:32:05 -0400
Like anything, "it depends"
Running a data center with high speed connectivity to the internet
and a modest amount of redundancy is a fairly expensive proposition. Unless
you're a fairly large company, you're going to get hit by a lot of up step
function costs without the ability to amortize them across a great deal of
services. Obviously, if you don't need high speed true Internet connectivity
(just serving local buildings), then the step functions will be slightly
lower for you.
A solution that folks have done is to rent entire servers in someone else's
datacenter. Think of this as something very much like a cloud situation save
that you're purchasing an entire machine and/or rack position.
The concept of the cloud is that you purchase in very small increments of
hardware; the conceptual ideal is that you'd only pay for the marginal cost
of service that you need. Currently you pay for small integer chunks of a
unit of hardware provided by system virtualization.
The pro with this is that you literally pay for what you use. If you don't
need much equipment *or* if you need a lot of stuff for a very short period
of time, then you can avoid paying a large amount of money.
The con is that if you need an awful lot of hardware for an extended period
of time then may find it cheaper to do it yourself.
-- craig
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort
<cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> but is cloud really more cost effective? and what are the reasons it is
> cost effective?
> Alan.-
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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jeremiah Wilton <jwilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> On Jun 3, 2010, at 5:42 AM, "Powell, Mark" <mark.powell2@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>> If you have to give up control of what versions of software you run then
>>> I do not see how you could even consider making such a migration.
>>>
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>> Who says you have to give up control of software versions? On most IaaS
>> cloud platforms (including Amazon), you can run any Linux or Windows, and
>> any software on top of that you want. I'm not sure what restriction you are
>> referring to.
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>> Yes cloud is an annoying buzzword. It is also an actual real thing that
>> does stuff.
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>> Jeremiah Wilton
>> Blue Gecko, Inc.
>> http://www.bluegecko.net
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