Comments on: Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise?

By: Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers

Amazon EC2 Inches Closer To Corporate Customers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:24:46 +0000

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By: jgannonwp

jgannonwp — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:05:11 +0000

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

i365 gets physical with on-site storage « Storage Effect — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:42:26 +0000

[...] 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

Pete Steege — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:06:10 +0000

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

Will Microsoft Tempt Enterprises Up To the Cloud? - GigaOM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:28:23 +0000

[...] 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 [...]