Comments on: Can your hypervisor radio for air support? http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1116 IT management in a changing IT world Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: William Louth http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1116#comment-99776 William Louth Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:46:20 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=1116#comment-99776 Nice posting. I agree that the current crop of cloud providers are basically glorified web hosting companies (the same can be said for most "cloud" marketed software) without any top down view from a business service management and/or application (dev/test/deploy) management perspective. At the end of the day it is all about software (hidden behind smoke & clouds) and those like Microsoft that truly understand what is needed in this space and across the somewhat shortened application lifecycle will dominate the (battle)field. At the moment Amazon and others (who build on top of Amazon offerings) are completely blind to what is executing above them and lack a mechanism to allow bi-directional communication between them that would enhance the overall efficiency and performance of the systems. This is very evident in the lack of itemized billing (and metering) offered. You just get a billing at the end of the month with no means to correlate that to actual workloads (and changes in activities). http://williamlouth.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/cloud-computing-a-tale-of-two-machines/ William Nice posting. I agree that the current crop of cloud providers are basically glorified web hosting companies (the same can be said for most “cloud” marketed software) without any top down view from a business service management and/or application (dev/test/deploy) management perspective. At the end of the day it is all about software (hidden behind smoke & clouds) and those like Microsoft that truly understand what is needed in this space and across the somewhat shortened application lifecycle will dominate the (battle)field.

At the moment Amazon and others (who build on top of Amazon offerings) are completely blind to what is executing above them and lack a mechanism to allow bi-directional communication between them that would enhance the overall efficiency and performance of the systems. This is very evident in the lack of itemized billing (and metering) offered. You just get a billing at the end of the month with no means to correlate that to actual workloads (and changes in activities).

http://williamlouth.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/cloud-computing-a-tale-of-two-machines/

William

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