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"The Cloud" that they're talking about is their own datacenters (they're certianly not using EC2) and they're hosting their web-apps over a WAN without VPNs or
by NovaS1X 11y ago
"The Cloud" that they're talking about is their own datacenters (they're certianly not using EC2) and they're hosting their web-apps over a WAN without VPNs or other traditional forms of closing off access.
However, this doesn't say much about their datacenters which will still be heavily firewalled. IPMI, SSH, and other access wouldn't be shared over a wide open WAN. The "Cloud" (see: datacenter) LAN will still be protected traditionally.
This article doesn't have enough information in my opinion.
- mynameisvlad 11y agoI mean, of course it's their own datacenters. They're not going to be putting their corporate data in a competitor's data center. That said, they could be leveraging new things in their Google App Engine cloud, which would actually make it "the cloud" as people refer to it.
- NovaS1X 11y agoI'm glad you mentioned that. A full scale switch like this, if successful, would be great marketing ammunition and would simplify the administration of their datacenters. No separation of their cloud hosting and internal services would greatly simplify administration at the cost of having to beef up security mentioned in the article.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoThe funny thing is, they expect everyone else to put their corporate data in their datacenters! Google has an extremely one-sided view of where data should go. (In all cases, directly to their servers.)
- mynameisvlad 11y agoDo they, though? They expect everyone else to put their product in their datacenters. I'm sure they'd like it if others also put their company data in (more revenue, after all), but I wouldn't say that anything they have offered is really pushing for the corporate data in the cloud aspect. I'd say Amazon is more aggressive on that side with things like WorkSpaces and WorkDocs.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoGoogle Apps for Business? Android for Work?