By annie shum | June 22, 2009
“8 Questions To Ask Before Going Live In The Cloud” by InformationWeek contributor Michael Healey. Each question digs into one of those hard details, the kind that just might trip up an effort to put cloud computing to business use. Healey raises deceptively simple questions-like “Why’s it slow?” and “What’s the support plan?”-and brings out the hard details that are tempting to overlook. Take chargebacks to the business. Leave out the proportionate bandwidth cloud apps consume, and they’ll look much cheaper than they are.
“8 Questions” is part of a 3-article, all-digital supplement download that we publish this week on the problems awaiting the next phase of virtualization and cloud computing. Charles Babcock explains what’s tricky about monitoring application performance in virtualized environments, while Joe Hernick tackles virtualization security, and the problems IT creates for itself. Get past these problems, and virtualization and the cloud just might give you a real edge.
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Finally asking questions for that are real to a business. Clouds great, but what’s the real value when you ask all the questions.