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Migration to Cloud? Just marketing buzz or useful?

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:23AM   Printer-friendly
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microtodd writes:

In the wake of Cisco's announcement of entering the cloud market, there are several business case analyses that provide insight into whether the cloud is a good thing or not. Of course there are always competing factors between management and IT, which usually boils down to short-term vs long-term cost and financials vs technicals. What do the Soylenters think? Is the cost savings worth the security risks? Are the technical benefits of reliability worth delegating some administrative control?

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:44PM

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:44PM (#21045)

    "Cloud" was taken over by marketing droids to mean a hosted service somewhere, be it a plain vm, or incorporating services too like email, or file hosting.

    Originally it talked about building your own applications that scaled across data centres, and that you cold add more processing power on an hour by hour basis. If you need lots of processing power on the last day of the month, you court rent it for a few hours rather than keep lots of servers around. Personally I don't have much need for that type of application, but I can see those that do.

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