I saw a reference to fox in the cloud a week ago and my heart skipped a beat. I went to the site and skipped another beat
Then i saw the costs. I'm back to normal now. The costs killed it completely. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > Another look at life with a cloud. > > > > <http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1534.html> > > > > How well can you plan for an outage / blockage? > > Probably better than you can plan for an outage/blockage of your > own equipment. > > Imagine if everyone generated their own electricity: every company > would have to have engineering staff on hand to monitor electric production, > maintain smooth output, handle equipment maintenance, etc. Even with all > that, failures would be a fact of life. > > Now compare that to the current system for obtaining electric power: > yes, there are outages, and you do need to prepare for them, but every > company doesn't need to maintain their own electricity staff. Most of the > time "it just works", and the smart companies plan for those times when it > doesn't. > > Cloud computing is no different. If you expect it to never fail, you > are being as unrealistic as if you expect the hardware that you maintain on > site to never fail. But the benefits of not having to have a dedicated IT > staff just to maintain commodity hardware far outweigh any downside. > Computing power and storage will become utilities, and the way apps are > written will change to reflect that ubiquity. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
