On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:25:23AM -0400, Evan Pettrey wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I've been asked to put together a presentation on the pros and cons of cloud >>> computing and a recommendation for what, if anything, can be moved to the >>> cloud which will result in a net savings that will be worth any additional >>> problems/headaches. >> >> I think the whole conversation is easier if you don't say "cloud" - instead, >> say "outsourcing" - > > Maybe. Maybe not. You could just as easily be running in a private cloud, > inside your own facility, on your own hardware, where you virtualize your > entire infrastructure for maximum versatility. Heard from a lot of people at > the HP Discover conference this past week doing just that, and it's just as > valid a definition of "cloud computing" as any other (moreso than many > actually). > > "Cloud", as someone else pointed out, has many, many, interpretations, and > before you can give any sort of presentation on 'cloud computing' (and before > this august list can provide any sort of meaningful feedback), you are > probably going to need to specify exactly what "type" of 'cloud computing' it > is that you're talking about. Because if you ask five people what it means, > you'll get between seven and nine answers, all of which will have radically > different data-points for your presentation.
just the topic of what "Cloud" means is a substantial presentation on it's own. David Lang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
