structure08 - working the clouds - panel questions
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Panel questions for the Structure08 discussion on working the clouds, cloud computing, and on-demand platformsTRANSCRIPT
Working the Clouds: NextGen Infrastructure for New EntrepreneursGeva Perry, GigaSpaces
Jason Hoffman, Joyent
Tony Lucas, XCalibre
Lew Moorman, Rackspace
Christophe Bisciglia, Google
Joe Weinman, AT&T
Why is this different from grid computing or timesharing?
Are we selling our souls?Or should we not worry about lock-in?
Can we have our old toys?
Can I drag my database into the cloud, or do I have to start using Big Data?
What has to change for enterprises to use it?
What’s the bigger lock-in?
Formal Informal
Proprietary APIs and languages
I can’t build it myself even if I
want to
Standards of portability
Is the future a few big clouds or many small ones?
Is this the end of network equipment as we know it?
Cisco
Nortel
F5
Juniper
Stomp
IPChains
Vyatta
Packeteer
Hardware Software
What are the licensing and billing challenges?
Is synchronization the key?
How do you use a cloud offline? Is synchronization essential for cloud adoption?
Does this give Google (gears), Adobe (AIR) and others an advantage?
Legislative barriers
What ethical responsibilities do cloud operators have?
Wiretapping?
Patriot Act?
Privacy and geographic boundaries?
Cloud specialization
Ning wants to be a social network.
Webex wants to collaborate.
Salesforce wants to be a CRM.
How big a factor is the network effect?
feed.API (facebook) > feed.api (friendster)
Security
What are the big issues?
Can one bad user ruin everyone’s day in an elastic environment?
Can one good hack take everyone offline?