That last should read: "I will fight against any public cloud implementation until I'm satisfied on points 2, 3 and 4 - and I expect points 2 and 3 to be considerably easier to deal with than point 4."
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:08, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Four points, at least: > > 1) Google's set of hardware is likely way more reliable than mine, or > anyone's on this list. > > 2) Improving performance in computing is all about chasing bottlenecks > - We're going to have to do something about bandwidth to make external > (private or public) clouds competitive with internal clouds. > > 3) Bandwidth also has to meet the reliability requirements for your > purposes. BIFs are a bitch when it's your connection to your computing > resources, rather than simple web/email stuff that just went bye-bye. > > 4) The security of clouds hosted by third parties is not yet tested. > > If you don't care (much) about your data being exposed to the world, > and don't need (much) Internet bandwidth to keep your computing > performant, and the risk to your org of connectivity outages is low, > public clouds (whether it's Google Docs or something else) are > probably just fine for you - actually probably better than what you > can do in-house, because the risk of data actually being lost is lower > than doing it yourself. > > $WORK has to care about its data - it deals with both > engineering/product IP and extremely sensitive third party data. > > I will fight against any public cloud implementation until I'm > satisfied on points 2, 3 and 4 - and I expect points 2 and to be > considerably easier to deal with than point 4. > > Kurt > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 08:55, Stu Sjouwerman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Anyone move from MS Office to Google Docs? >> >> I'm doing a WServerNews editorial about this. >> >> Anyone made the jump, and how did this pan out? >> >> Warm regards, >> >> Stu >> >> >> >> ... >> >> >> >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
