tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post3521626569872397774..comments2009-10-19T15:41:42.937-04:00Sarah Tavelhttps://profiles.google.com/108254512958707569058noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post-68510874570077287242009-10-17T21:18:08.313-04:002009-10-17T21:18:08.313-04:00Engine Yard&#39;s slice pricing model is so inconvenient and a large step back from on-demand computing. Rackspace has destroyed its premium brand positioning with all of their outages during the past 2 - 3 years. And retrospectively, if you don&#39;t have enough server / system admin experience on your team, the short-term help from any managed service, fanatical or not, will eventually lead to much larger problems. There is nothing more debilitating than being down for multiple days because of a trivial bug stemming from the managed service providers lack of real understanding of your application.Jonathan Marcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03437998655379750044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post-36090895812640988242009-05-04T01:23:00.000-04:002009-05-04T01:23:00.000-04:00"The trend is so massive and at the same time so logical..."<br /><br />While I agree the trend to discuss cloud computing is MASSIVE, there are very few enterprises actually USING it. And logical for anyone other than a startup it is not. <br /><br />AWS offers virtualization. And an interface for you to launch their VMs and provision storage. Nothing magical here.<br /><br />If you simply look at the NUMBERS, do your bean counting and compare the cost of virtualizing your own existing datacenter and using your own storage with your existing staff, Amazon begins to look expensive and less flexible and less able to support your existing applications that require high, consistent i/o.<br /><br />AWS is great for startups with no existing infrastructure or staff with networking, storage expertise. <br /><br />The hype is way bigger than the bite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post-91495053843085261082009-04-19T20:16:00.000-04:002009-04-19T20:16:00.000-04:00Bill - Thanks for the comment. I agree completely, actually. I think you'll see why when I finish up my follow-up post :)Sarah Tavelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11417142500978926397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post-68877000020276560582009-04-16T16:40:00.000-04:002009-04-16T16:40:00.000-04:00I like the concept, but the execution scares the jeebies out of me. I think of when people discovered midrange, leapt to it (cheaper! faster! all mine!) and discovered later it also meant (no backup! no redundancy! no resiliency!) the hard way.<br /><br />Oh, lord, tell me that I'm not advocating SLAs for cloud computing.Cerulean Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01212953653794261332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6997105406412017838.post-52692503183918437782009-04-15T18:42:00.000-04:002009-04-15T18:42:00.000-04:00Grrr. Need to implement Wordpress...Sarah Tavelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11417142500978926397noreply@blogger.com