Comments on: Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-931044 Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:24:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26615#comment-931044 <p>[...] Is Amazon ready for the enterprise? GA_googleFillSlot("gigaom_ros_post_footer"); [...]</p> [...] Is Amazon ready for the enterprise? GA_googleFillSlot(“gigaom_ros_post_footer”); [...]

]]> By: jgannonwp http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-909267 jgannonwp Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:05:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26615#comment-909267 <p>Your point about peering relationships is a valid one. I'll take it one step more and suggest that Amazon needs to open up about their entire configuration if they want enterprises to move the majority of workloads to their cloud.</p> <p>If I'm a CIO, I need to have a full understanding of the underpinnings of any hosting/cloud I'm sitting on top of so that I'm able to debug production problems.</p> <p>There is certainly a tradeoff for Amazon (revealing secret sauce vs. more enterprise revenue) but it's probably worth it for them in the long haul...</p> Your point about peering relationships is a valid one. I’ll take it one step more and suggest that Amazon needs to open up about their entire configuration if they want enterprises to move the majority of workloads to their cloud.

If I’m a CIO, I need to have a full understanding of the underpinnings of any hosting/cloud I’m sitting on top of so that I’m able to debug production problems.

There is certainly a tradeoff for Amazon (revealing secret sauce vs. more enterprise revenue) but it’s probably worth it for them in the long haul…

]]> By: i365 gets physical with on-site storage « Storage Effect http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-908839 i365 gets physical with on-site storage « Storage Effect Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:42:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26615#comment-908839 <p>[...] poster child for this reluctance is Amazon S3, which guarantees 99.95% uptime, yet has a history that falls short of this [...]</p> [...] poster child for this reluctance is Amazon S3, which guarantees 99.95% uptime, yet has a history that falls short of this [...]

]]> By: Pete Steege http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-908531 Pete Steege Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:06:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26615#comment-908531 <p>It's hard to compensate people for the real-world costs of datacenter downtime. The uptime guarantee is a good idea, but real adoption will start once they've demonstrated it for a good long while.</p> It’s hard to compensate people for the real-world costs of datacenter downtime. The uptime guarantee is a good idea, but real adoption will start once they’ve demonstrated it for a good long while.

]]> By: Will Microsoft Tempt Enterprises Up To the Cloud? - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/10/27/is-amazon-ready-for-the-enterprise/#comment-908513 Will Microsoft Tempt Enterprises Up To the Cloud? - GigaOM Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:28:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26615#comment-908513 <p>[...] the company having stepped up its push into collaborative services and software — after all “the cloud” isn’t going away, most people said, and Microsoft is making the right move by using its global heft and broad [...]</p> [...] the company having stepped up its push into collaborative services and software — after all “the cloud” isn’t going away, most people said, and Microsoft is making the right move by using its global heft and broad [...]

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