Comments on: OpSource Cloud Gives Enterprises a Safe Play for Cloud Computing Adoption http://saaskatoon.deliveredinnovation.com/2009/08/28/opsource-cloud-gives-enterprises-a-safe-play-for-cloud-computing-adoption/ SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Computing Mon, 24 May 2010 21:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Glenn Gruber http://saaskatoon.deliveredinnovation.com/2009/08/28/opsource-cloud-gives-enterprises-a-safe-play-for-cloud-computing-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Glenn Gruber Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:37:23 +0000 http://saaskatoon.deliveredinnovation.com/?p=408#comment-235 Michael, I had similar reactions when I got my demo (although from Richard Dym, not Treb). My thoughts are here: http://www.softwareindustryinsights.com/2009/08/reflections-of-opsource-cloud-demo/ I too thought that the 100% uptime claim was not really credible. From a marketers perspective I'm not sure why they felt they had to promise something they couldn't actually deliver and might lead many to discount other aspects of what they're purporting to be offering. But similar to the EC2 announcement yesterday, I'm really surprised to see how VPN technology and the running of canned scripts to bring up generic servers is getting. While not the same as bringing up a RHEL server, my Wordpress blog is on BlueHost and I had to click 2 buttons for that to come up almost instantly. Yet on the "Cloud side" it gets hailed as some sort of monumental achievement. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the complexity of the task in the background, but I'm less than overwhelmed on balance. Glenn Gruber Twitter: @ggruber66 Michael,

I had similar reactions when I got my demo (although from Richard Dym, not Treb). My thoughts are here: http://www.softwareindustryinsights.com/2009/08/reflections-of-opsource-cloud-demo/

I too thought that the 100% uptime claim was not really credible. From a marketers perspective I’m not sure why they felt they had to promise something they couldn’t actually deliver and might lead many to discount other aspects of what they’re purporting to be offering.

But similar to the EC2 announcement yesterday, I’m really surprised to see how VPN technology and the running of canned scripts to bring up generic servers is getting. While not the same as bringing up a RHEL server, my WordPress blog is on BlueHost and I had to click 2 buttons for that to come up almost instantly. Yet on the “Cloud side” it gets hailed as some sort of monumental achievement. Maybe I’m not giving enough credit to the complexity of the task in the background, but I’m less than overwhelmed on balance.

Glenn Gruber
Twitter: @ggruber66

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