Comments on: Avoiding the Toll Road to the Cloud http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Finding A Responsible and Secure Systemized Wholesale Submit-Shipper For Necessary Office Wholesale Electronics | Technology News Today http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/#comment-222363 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:48:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65964#comment-222363 [...] Avoiding the Toll Road to the Cloud (gigaom.com) [...]

]]> By: Avoiding the Toll Road into the Cloud « K. Scott Morrison's Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/#comment-222362 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:50:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65964#comment-222362 [...] 27, 2009 I have a new article I co-wrote with Andrew Finall and Jay Thorne now published on GigaOm. It’s about leased lines to the cloud, an especially timely topic given yesterday’s [...]

]]> By: Allan Leinwand http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/#comment-222361 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:29:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65964#comment-222361 I think that the ideas you present are insightful and valid. While I agree that the real solution to wide scale enterprise IT cloud adoption may be to move applications to a SOA architecture, the adoption and migration timeframe for this move will more than likely be lengthy.

I believe that CloudNAP would give enterprise IT a familiar product and technology to help accelerate that adoption timeframe and give them access to all of the cost and performance benefits of the cloud. In the long run, the business viability of CloudNAP may hinge on how quickly enterprise applications move to the architecture you describe and innovative service offerings developed by the company itself.

As a last point, I would argue that just because you have application level security between a browser and a server or VM in the cloud does not alleviate the need for security on the network as well. End-to-end security requires multiple layers of technology to be effective and I believe that you’ll see cloud providers offer VPN termination and more rigorous network security features in the near future.

]]> By: HereAndNow http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/#comment-222360 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:52:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65964#comment-222360 The key goal should be to get ALL user applications off of the desktop & into the browser. Then, the location of the web apps can be optimized, over time (e.g. “private” clouds, “public” clouds, or a combination thereof), with little or no impact to a companies’ workforce.

By moving to browser-based/cloud applications, companies can:

1. reduce their support costs (software updates are propagated to the entire workforce instantaneously).

2. achieve OS (Windows/Linux/OS X/…) & device (smartphone/netbook/notebook/desktop/…) independence.

3. simplify data backup (performed at the server level, instead of the client level).

4. enable workforce collaboration.

Better still, HTML5/Gears, WebGL/O3D, Native Client, etc., enable the development of web apps that behave & perform like desktop apps.

VERY exciting!

]]> By: David Robins http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/avoiding-the-toll-road-to-the-cloud/#comment-222359 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:16:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=65964#comment-222359 Interesting and informative article! In our business (www.binfire.com) we face all the challenges listed in this article. Our goal to to have small businesses leave their desktop and use our cloud tools, but we need to make sure security and speed are in place!

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