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Using 3rd party cloud systems

Tue, 10/20/2009 - 15:58 — JP Hebert

Elfiq cloudThese days there are a lot of discussions about cloud computing in an effort to move servers and applications onto a cloud service provide for either public or private resources. Providers such as Amazon, AT&T, IBM and Verizon are extending very financially interesting alternatives to owning your own infrastructure, delivering a new level of reliability onto their massive and decentralized virtualization platforms running either VMWare or Xen.

When planning to move an organization’s system onto a cloud, the bandwidth issue remains the same – are you on a single point of failure? When things are settled, regardless if you host your own servers internally or use a cloud provider, depending on a single Internet carrier will prove to offset gains by adding shortcomings for downtime and saturation. The key is diversification: mix carriers and carrier technologies to offset these two issues and raise the level of satisfaction for both internal and external users, while delivering this in a cost-controlled fashion.

Clouds are great tools but if you lose your access, you’re floating in mid-air until your issues are resolved.
 

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