The Key to Success in Cloud Computing? Good Plumbing
November 2, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Michael Kanellos.
Internet startups need to amass a compelling business model, defensible technology and an experienced team of entrepreneurs to achieve escape velocity. But they also need to make sure the trains run on time.
Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week. Companies offering cloud services have to have a good idea, in other words, but it is more important that they make sure their system doesn’t crash, annoy users or leak data like a sieve…
“The barrier to entry is low but getting to scale is a new bar into the game of success,” he said. “A new bar of success is operational excellence.” Allan Leinwand, CTO of platform development at ServiceNow and a Zynga alum, generally agreed. Zynga, for instance, started out by hosting its own games. The company then quickly found itself overwhelmed: it couldn’t order servers from Dell fast enough and plug them in to keep up with traffic. As a result, it shifted over to Amazon Cloud Services…
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