Interop: The Future Of Cloud Computing
October 3, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Cloud computing is beginning to transform the way enterprises buy and use technology resources, and that was evident at the Interop 2014 conference and exhibition in New York this week. Cloud experts and practitioners of all stripes were in attendance and provided some insights — positive and negative — on where this trend is heading.
In a workshop on Designing Infrastructure for Private Clouds, Ivan Pepelnjak, the network architect for UpSpace.net AG, a consulting company in Slovenia, hit upon one of the defining characteristics of cloud computing. "Cloud is all about self-service. … You need to be able to allow your [internal] customer to change the rules on the load balancer and firewall. When someone says, ‘This will never fly in my organization,’ just tell them, ‘Your developers are already using Amazon.’"…
In weighing an open source internal cloud versus commercial products, he asked: "How expensive will it be to operate cloud? On the open source side you will have total control. But can you afford that? You either pay vendors or pay staff."…
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