Back to the articlejust a comment on the new layout vrs the first poll question #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 10:34 GMT
FAIL!!!
Cloud computing what’s really going on?
Q3 #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 10:34 GMT
So which way around do you want it?
Header says one thing, column headings say quite the opposite.
Are your polls arranged by the same people who do the "everyone loves ID card" surveys?
@M7S #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 11:57 GMT
It will be interesting to see the results of Q3. Because it was confusing, I didn't answer any of Q3.
Started to fill this in #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 11:57 GMT
Then realised I didn't have a clue what half of it meant.
"Infrastructure as a Service (Utility computing)" Do you mean "Are my servers hosted by a 3rd party?"
I think you should have stuck "Cloud" in the neologism poll. What's new apart from the name?
Fantastic Idea but often crap end product #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 11:57 GMT
Cloud computing offers the ideal. Theoretical 100% uptime, immediate failover, snapshot backups blah blah blah.
What we have ended up with (with 3 different vendors now) is slow, unreliable machines with massive disk queue times, never reboot properly and cumbersome billing and management. Beyond more trouble than they are worth.
Back to Dedicated hosting now and getting some sleep at night too :D
When the questions are so complex... #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 11:57 GMT
...the results will be meaningless.
Tebbutt was a respected journalist. Surely he can communicate better than this!
Jargon #
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 12:01 GMT
Opex, capex, vertical, horizontal, skew-wiff?
What kind of people are you expecting to respond to this nonsense?
