http://www.office20.com/people/pandersen/blog Paul's musings from the conference. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:06:01 GMT Clearspace 2.5.1 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2008-09-03T19:06:01Z http://www.office20.com/people/pandersen/blog/2008/09/03/unconference-cloud-stuff <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:d1bac192-d42c-4f94-9470-ef89399dffe6] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>What is it, really?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Platform, Software, computing power, storage, standards? Yes.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Some obvious benefits:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Leverage existing services</li><li>Leveraging others experience — multi-tenancy</li><li>Smart resource allocation, especially for peaks in traffic.</li><li>Applications that require heavy resources for short periods of time — e.g. large log analysis</li><li>Accessibility, mobile applications?</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Some obvious problems:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Security?</li><li>Compliance?</li><li>Managing Internet dependent SLA</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Opportunity for deskless employees?</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:d1bac192-d42c-4f94-9470-ef89399dffe6] --> cloud_computing platform saas Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:43:54 GMT pandersen http://www.office20.com/people/pandersen/blog/2008/09/03/unconference-cloud-stuff 2008-09-03T19:43:54Z 1 year, 6 months ago http://www.office20.com/people/pandersen/blog/comment/unconference-cloud-stuff http://www.office20.com/people/pandersen/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=1137