Our opinion here is that it is an acceptable solution for no- business-critical applications (spam filtering being the biggest), but for anything that is critical to operations it is not considered and never will be. "Cloud computing" makes my business IT systems only as reliable as the skills of the backhoe operator digging around my telco's line on my neighbor's property. Not a position we will ever be comfortable putting ourselves in. Tim
From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cloud computing... your opinions We're working on cloud computing initiatives (like everyone), and I'm also doing a fair amount of research into the area. (Of course, the whole idea of "cloud computing" is itself fairly silly, when it's just a renaming of the concept of a network-connected computer. But whatever, it's the hot topic.) There are areas where it makes sense, such as email filtering. Web filtering, well maybe not so much. CRM (like SalesForce.com), makes sense. I'm curious -- what are your thoughts on cloud computing? What might be the security questions you would ask your cloud computing vendors? What irks you about it? What is good about it? Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 p: 727-562-0101 x220 e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> MSN: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w: www.sunbeltsoftware.com<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com> b: www.sunbeltblog.com<http://www.sunbeltblog.com> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
