Comments on: Don’t run your own data center if you’re a public IaaS http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/ Wed, 22 May 2013 13:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: CloudSigma http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-794512 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:31:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-794512 @Sankar, you raise some interesting points.

You are absolutely right that the data centre is the foundation of any public cloud. Therefore, any one cloud location can only be as reliable at a minimum as its data centre. The question therefore is, can a dedicated data centre provider do a better job at running a data centre than a public cloud provider? We’d say definitely yes, even for a provider operating at scale like AWS. I’d point you to our US data centre at http://www.switchnap.com to draw your own conclusions.

Even if a public cloud provider could run a data centre to the same quality as a dedicated provider, is it the best use of resources versus investing in core product innovation? The argument for our customers using IaaS is not that they might not have the scale or ability to do their own infrastructure but that doing so has an opportunity cost versus other activities. It is a business focus argument.

Best wishes,

Robert
CTO
CloudSigma

]]> By: Dmitri Kalintsev http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-793823 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:17:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-793823 What about modular DC approaches, such as BladeRoom, for example? Might they be a feasible “middle ground”? I realise they don’t address the connectivity and location problems, but they might help the other areas.

]]> By: Sankar http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-793433 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:39:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-793433 How about SLAs? Would it be possible for most iaas players who may outsource thier datacenters to offer high qos SLA’s in today’s market..

What are the perceived risks for the end users?

E.g simplecdn which had offered a retail and bulk cdn through a outsourced isp partnership closed their service suddenly one day. Some sort of fiscal partnership issues were cited widely as a reason..

]]> By: sankar http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-793426 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:23:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-793426 It would be nice to understand a few more aspects of this such as

1. Given the importance of security and privacy in public iaas ,what sort of minimum standards and compliance should the datacenter provider have

]]> By: Nico http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-793214 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:39:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-793214 Actually, by running your solution on a public cloud you are moving to a PaaS offering, platform as a service. As IaaS is the lowest level of the cloud, it will always be more about the hardware, nuts & bolts that the platforms running on them :)

]]> By: quickgamer88 http://gigaom.com/2012/01/08/baillie-public-iaas/#comment-793000 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:06:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=456352#comment-793000 Reblogged this on quickgamer88.

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