This post is not new, but remains relevant. Among my favorites:
- If you peel back the label and it says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… it’s not a cloud.
- If there is a consultant in the room… it’s not a cloud.
That said, Cloud Camp is in London next week (July 16) and I’d dearly love to go. I’ve no doubt Werner will speak about Amazon web services and James Governor from Redmonk will be there to report.
Doesn’t cloud computing generally boil down to a conversation with your carriers? In my mind that’s the real question. How to you feel about trusting your enterprise to the cable guy? Perhaps not today, but eventually you will.
(See also: Monkchips: 15 Ways to Tell It’s Not Cloud Computing)
(See also: Gigaom: 10 Reasons Enterprises aren’t ready to trust the Cloud)
(See also: zdnet: How to deploy the cloud of your choice)
(See also: Cloudcamp: London)
(See also: Amazon Web Services)
(See also: BLOG: Werner Vogels)
(See also: Redmonk: Analysis for the people, by the people)
(See also: BLOG: James Governor)