One of the my problems with most cloud ROI worksheets is that they are heavily weighted for use-cases where resource usage is very bursty. But what if your resource requirements aren’t bursty ? And what if you have a use case where you have to maintain a small IT team to manage some on-site resources [...]

While some of the interest in moving towards public cloud is based on sound economics, there is a small segment of this movement purely due to the “herd mentality”. The slide on the right is from a Microsoft publication shows that larger networks may be less economical on the cloud (at least today). Richard Farley, [...]

Summary from James’ keynote talk at Velocity 2010 Pace of Innovation – Datacenter pace of innovation is increasing.  The high focus on infrastructure innovation is driving down the cost, increasing reliability and reducing resource consumption which ultimate drives down cost. Where does the money go ? 54% on servers, 8% on networking, 21% on power [...]

James Hamilton is one of the leaders in this industry and has written a very thought provoking post about private clouds not being the future. This is what he said about private clouds when compared to existing not-cloud solutions. A fix, Not the future (reference to an InformationWeek post) Runs at lower utilization levels Consumes [...]