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The post (marketing article) says nothing and doesn't identify what vendor they are trashing. As far as I know my 'IaaS' vendor doesn't retain root access. The

by fleitz 16y ago

The post (marketing article) says nothing and doesn't identify what vendor they are trashing. As far as I know my 'IaaS' vendor doesn't retain root access. The article makes almost no sense, it starts be trashing iaas, then suggests paas, with out attempting to explain any difference between a 'platform' and 'infrastructure'. The only thing missing from the article is an affiliate code on the enstratus link. Then it would be fully clear who wrote it and why. Has anyone not selling something ever uttered the phrase 'deploy best of breed solutions'? I think not. If my current iaas vendor retains root access then I certainly don't want a more 'managed' solution.

tobias-ch 16y ago
Having just read the post I disagree. The post clearly says that most current vendors place significant restrictions on the software and networking layers in their cloud. As someone who has used GoGrid, Rackspace and AWS I can concur with this position. You have a lot less control over your cloud servers than you do over say a dedicated server. CloudSigma are an IaaS provider who presumably take a different approach. Overall I think it is a valid point for them to make, especially as it seems that a lot of these restrictions are vendor created.
- fleitz 16y ago
  I think that most of the problem with IaaS vendors, EC2 in particular is that the IO throughput is absolute shit. I've never had a problem with the software I'm allowed to run on EC2, I've always had a problem with its horrible IO throughput. There is also a lot of comfort in knowing everyone else is running the same kernel and there will be some difficulty in executing various exploits for the hypervisor.
  - cloudsigma 16y ago
    Actually in our cloud there aren't any shared software resources between cloud servers which is why you can run any operating system you like. Each cloud server is a standalone entity in its own container. We feel this is a lot more secure and flexible. With regards to IO throughput, this along with networking performance are two areas we identified and sought to address when designing and building out our platform. You might be interested to read my blog post earlier about benchmarking cloud servers and differentiating performance between clouds at http://bit.ly/a7CqV3 http://bit.ly/a7CqV3 . Basically storage performance is one of the key differentiating factors between clouds. Again the performance has as much to do with vendor hardware and architecture choices as it does to do with fundamental cloud computing issues. Best wishes and thanks for your feedback, Patrick CEO CloudSigma http://www.cloudsigma.com http://www.cloudsigma.com

by fleitz 16y ago

tobias-ch 16y ago

Having just read the post I disagree. The post clearly says that most current vendors place significant restrictions on the software and networking layers in their cloud. As someone who has used GoGrid, Rackspace and AWS I can concur with this position. You have a lot less control over your cloud servers than you do over say a dedicated server. CloudSigma are an IaaS provider who presumably take a different approach. Overall I think it is a valid point for them to make, especially as it seems that a lot of these restrictions are vendor created.

fleitz 16y ago
I think that most of the problem with IaaS vendors, EC2 in particular is that the IO throughput is absolute shit. I've never had a problem with the software I'm allowed to run on EC2, I've always had a problem with its horrible IO throughput. There is also a lot of comfort in knowing everyone else is running the same kernel and there will be some difficulty in executing various exploits for the hypervisor.
- cloudsigma 16y ago
  Actually in our cloud there aren't any shared software resources between cloud servers which is why you can run any operating system you like. Each cloud server is a standalone entity in its own container. We feel this is a lot more secure and flexible. With regards to IO throughput, this along with networking performance are two areas we identified and sought to address when designing and building out our platform. You might be interested to read my blog post earlier about benchmarking cloud servers and differentiating performance between clouds at http://bit.ly/a7CqV3 http://bit.ly/a7CqV3 . Basically storage performance is one of the key differentiating factors between clouds. Again the performance has as much to do with vendor hardware and architecture choices as it does to do with fundamental cloud computing issues. Best wishes and thanks for your feedback, Patrick CEO CloudSigma http://www.cloudsigma.com http://www.cloudsigma.com