Am 15.04.2010, 15:54 Uhr, schrieb Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net>:
> Isn 't it incredibly hard to predict costs for cloud services? Not a known and predictable requirement basis. There are problems with some of the cheapest options such as Amazon's new auction-based service. But for anything where large resources are required but time is not a given, it's a good model. Indeed The Economist even recently covered the nascent market for resources. http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15663898 We will at some point come to forget that Amazon ever sold things apart from CPU cycles! There will be issues about concentration - I remember someone at Europython last year euphorically welcoming the fact that 25% (or relatively high percentage) of all sites are now on one of four providers. A thought that fills me with the collywobbles, I'm not afraid to admit. But hopefully utility computing can find its way into smaller data centres both in-house and down the road. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Managing Director Clark Consulting & Research German Office Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-600-3657 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
