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For small, technically-oriented companies, this article probably sounds kind of lame. But think about 80legs, or SmugMug, or someone with a 200-machine farm and
by aristus 17y ago
For small, technically-oriented companies, this article probably sounds kind of lame. But think about 80legs, or SmugMug, or someone with a 200-machine farm and 20TB of data squirreled away in S3. Moving to a different cloud would be an expensive, tedious, big-bang proposition.
It doesn't matter how open the data formats are. If it's difficult to simultaneously use two or more vendors at a time, you are locked in.
- jrockway 17y agoWhat about the non-cloud version? Is it easy to move 20TB from one storage system to another. What about to a new data center? What about to a cloud provider? I think if you have 20TB of data that you need to have online all the time, things are going to be hard regardless.
- aristus 17y agoYes, but if you have your own datacenter and some spiffy new software or device comes on the market, you can buy it and set it up. You can take advantage of innovation from anywhere. If you are sitting in Cloud A and Cloud B introduces some new thing... you're out of luck until Cloud A (who knows you're not going to move) decides to offer something similar.