Cloud Application Platform for Spring – Java Top five IT channel lessons for the quarter - Channel Marker Oct 21 2009 4:15PM GMT Posted by: badarrow Tags: Thanks! We'll email youwhen relevant content isadded and updated. Following Follow Barbara Darrow Google Microsoft Oracle public cloud Sun VARs remain extremely cautious on public cloud computing and are obsessed with which vendor giants will remain standing after more expected M&A activity. 1: Fear the cloud: Okay, that verbiage may be overkill, but the VARs said they spend a lot of time educating customers about when and if public cloud computing will really meet their needs. The rule of thumb seems to be: Unless you, the customer, control the data–encrypted across the wire and in storage–and you control physical access to the servers and storage, you will not be in compliance. Well-publicized outages including the recent Microsoft-T-mobile Sidekick personal data loss should be a reality check for customers, said George Brown, president of Database Solutions. It’s difficult to tell how serious Google is in its myriad projects.
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Surge Computing/Hybrid Computing In an earlier blog post [March 2, 2009], we discussed why private clouds enjoy only a small subset of the benefits of public clouds. If common API's allowed the same application to transition between a private cloud and a public cloud, we believe application operators could enjoy the full benefits of cloud computing. We referred to this capability as "surge computing" in our Above the Clouds white paper. Surge computing would allow developers to push just enough (possibly sanitized) data into the cloud to perform a computation and obtain an acceptable result, or seamlessly pull in resources from a public cloud when local capacity is temporarily exceeded. They could even use either the private cloud or the public cloud as a "spare" in the event that one cloud environment becomes unavailable or fails. One early surge-computing tool available to SaaS developers is Eucalyptus, an open source reimplementation of the Amazon Web Services EC2 APIs.
The real cost of cloud computing services Cloud computing services let CIOs reallocate up-front costs for hardware and software, but spreading such expenditures out over months and years will eventually catch up to your bottom line. And along the way, you may encounter many of the same challenges with data protection and content management that you would in your own data center. Cloud computing costs creeping up over time to match and possibly surpass one-shot up-front costs is a reality that Dave Banks, chief technology officer of PropertyRoom.com Inc., says he's willing to live with. Banks calculates that the Mission Viejo, Calif. dollars up front by putting its new auction engine in cloud computing services provider Savvis Inc.' One significant up-front cost that was eliminated was the Oracle database license, which is included in the estimated $10,000 per month fee PropertyRoom.com pays to have its auction engine housed and maintained on Savvis' infrastructure. Dave Banks, chief technology officer, PropertyRoom.com Inc.
Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks | Security Central Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled "Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing." Cloud computing has "unique attributes that require risk assessment in areas such as data integrity, recovery, and privacy, and an evaluation of legal issues in areas such as e-discovery, regulatory compliance, and auditing," Gartner says. (Compare security products.) Amazon's EC2 service and Google's Google App Engine are examples of cloud computing, which Gartner defines as a type of computing in which "massively scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered 'as a service' to external customers using Internet technologies." [ Learn more about what cloud computing really means and the new breed of utility computing and platform-as-a-service offerings. ] 1. 2. 3.