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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: 1) by aclarke on Tuesday March 25 2014, @01:15PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @01:15PM (#21067)
    It depends on what you're comparing.

    What do you have on the "not cloud" side?
    - Hosted web applications already on someone else's hardare?
    - Physical servers in your own data centre?
    - Physical servers in someone else's data centre?
    - Virtualized environment on physical servers, or just physical servers?

    What do you mean by the cloud?
    - PaaS
    - straight-up hardware you rent by the hour, old-school AWS style?
    - Something else that probably isn't the cloud but your marketing department thinks it is because you don't own it?

    You probably know all this, but I want to put it down for other readers. If you are moving from your own physical, non-virtualized environment to the cloud, you have different systems management tasks, and you probably have fewer of them. You still have to answer the question of "what do I do if the network connection disappears", or "what happens if a server goes down", but your answers will be different. Often your answers with the cloud will be easier and/or cheaper.

    With a PaaS model, you will also have less or no work regarding patches/upgrades or hardware faults. You will move your application onto their environment, and they will handle all that for you.