Roll up to the great Register Private Cloud survey
The Register has constructed a lovely survey about Private Cloud, which will form the basis of a number of research-based articles to be published in coming weeks. The survey is a one-pager and will take a few minutes of your time. Please take part! Here's some background to our thinking. Without getting bogged down in …
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Don't care. AND I noticed that there was one upvote for a story that nobody has read. IMO cloud = bad unless you need some temporary processing power and you have taken precautions that your calculations aren't leaking important stuff to people who might be interested.
At €80 for a 1Tb drive that can fit in your pocket and the prevalence of games machines and graphics cards; I really can't see why 'the cloud' would be of interest to anyone....if you need it you have the technical nous to roll your own. Or should do; or you shouldn't be doing that.
Duh
Its a survey for IT Professionals, aka people who understand the purpose of Cloud (cough cough Virtualisation!) and its applications...
Now go back to World of Warcraft!
Re: Duh
"Cloud (cough cough Virtualisation!)"
Cloud doesn't necessarily use virtualisation and virtualisation doesn't necessarily mean cloud, they just happen to coincide a lot. A better way to go is to replace the word cloud with infrastructure.
Public infrastructure = public cloud = rented computing
private infrastructure = private cloud = computing you purchased and installed
"A few minutes" ?
Yes, its one page but one /very/ long page.
Honestly; I don't think the description "one page" and "a few minutes" is accurate. More like "10 - 15 minutes".
Free Form Dynamics do "Open Research and Analysis"
Does that mean persuading El Reg to give their surveys a free plug, so they don't have to pay the professionals like Gartner and IDC? Do they trust the results of these surveys?
Re: Free Form Dynamics do "Open Research and Analysis"
Our surveys - we do the commissioning, we commission professionals to do qualitative research and we do trust the results - with the usual provisos of self-selecting participants / online surveys.
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