Well, it's much more than just a network connected computer. That's part of it, of course, but the idea of the cloud tends to focus much more on the provisioning, scalability, high availability, and geographically dispersed capabilities of such systems, among other things.
We are doing some initial exploration around it here, but I think that it may have some applications for areas where you need lots of resource for very short periods of times, especially when shared by a group of people who may need the resources at differing times. There are certainly privacy, integrity, and reliability concerns to look at as well as technical and cost. -sc From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:05 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/> ~
