Climbing Climbing: Which Cloud Solutions to use when ?
How should I use Cloud Computing Services ?
Where can we start ? Here is my personal hitlist.
OK, some people do complex services today already in the Cloud. In their eyes this ranking is wrong. Good expample is the massive use of salesforce.com. For me it is just a good example of taking risk. The main risk is the exit cost or the vendor login. If you ignore this issue, solutions like that are fine already. But only if you completely igore Vendor Lock. Read here the ultimate interview with Richard Stallman about the Vendor-Lock problem. For me, the exit costs or even the chance to exit a Cloud is one of the key issues. What is the difference between a traditionall 5 year ISP contract compared to a Cloud that can't be left ? There is no difference, it is the same unflexible situation, maybe with some more risk. We go into more details in one of the next
- Simple centalized storage for unstructured data like fotos, documents etc.
- Backups for simple, unstructured Data
- Web content, Blogs etc.
- Email Services
- Easy test and development scenarios
- Short term campains for large Enterprises
- Hosting for complete Web-sites
- Dynamic WebSites, including Databases
- Dynamic WebSites, including Databases and complex processing, ERP like applications