Comments on: ProfitBricks says it can out-Amazon Amazon’s cloud

By: Andrew Beltane

Andrew Beltane — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:46:34 +0000

Hardly new is it? VMware’s newest suppliers have been providing build your own server for a year or two now. Elastic hosts and their licensees came up with the idea, so they claim – and it’s been copied by other providers like cloud sigma as well. How is it news? Bad journalism, this.

By: Daniel K

Daniel K — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:09:54 +0000

not sure if this will be the next cool thing or something that will die off soon… it sounds interesting, but i think there’s a reason people, in general, choose horizontal scaling over vertical scaling.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:19:45 +0000

i think the pay-per-minute vs. pay-per-hour aspect is new vis a vis amazon.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:57:22 +0000

Scaling up/down vertically is nothing new. And I know at least one cloud IaaS provider that does it on the fly (no reboot required on the server). So, what’s new?

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:42:19 +0000

Cloud compute and storage is essential a commodity now. The only differentiator is on price. Offering a per minute based pricing method is an interesting way to be more flexible on pricing but I wonder how many large companies actually really care about what probably amounts to small differences in cost.

The real reason Amazon is “winning” is because of the surrounding services. They started with just storage and compute but that was a very long time ago. It’s all the other infrastructure services they provide that makes it worth choosing them – load balancing, DNS, e-mail delivery, payments, VPN…everything you need to run your infrastructure you can get from Amazon.

Every good hosting provider now has some kind of cloud compute/storage product. It’s the extra supporting functionality that really defines the top providers…and nobody seems to be able to catch up with what Amazon continually release.

By: Sankar Nagarajan

Sankar Nagarajan — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:17:19 +0000

Good to plan and try!. In practice very difficult to realise such a vision atleast for the next 5 years!

By: scott herson

scott herson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:00:08 +0000

Another great indicator of the longevity expected in the IaaS space!

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:17:03 +0000

@gigaloam, i have to admit the same thought crossed my mind… not sure why they picked it….

By: GigaLoam

GigaLoam — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:55:25 +0000

Horrible name.

Brick does not carry a positive association in the world of technology and using profit that way suggests a cheesy MLM scheme.

The product sounds interesting, but the name says “gimmicky marketing-driven crap that doesn’t work”.

That said, if their angle is to sign-up partners and push this through a bunch of integrators to PHBs, the name might be perfect.