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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Cloud Computing: Mostly fog machines in other people's datacenters
 
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high six
Feb 6, 2010
 I think a lot of it needlessly complicates things where it doesn't need to be used and causes a lot of unneeded issues.

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high six
Feb 6, 2010

MagnumOpus posted:

This could be said about any poorly-considered operational expenditure or architectural decision. If your computing needs are mostly big ERP applications with a ton of vendor-supported data sources cloud is probably not in your future. However there are use cases where some cloud concepts are the right solutions architecture: a SaaS company with unpredictable usage patterns, scientific orgs that can make use of on-demand Hadoop clusters, etc.

Some of the enterprises sprinting to the cloud are certainly doing so prematurely and for the wrong reasons. Many more severely underestimate the development effort and, I think more importantly, development philosophy shifts that are required to make cloud actually work for you. But for a great many common scenarios some form of cloud architecture is absolutely worth at least doing a proof of.

Oh, I am sure it is.

As a background thing, I got my first IT job about six months ago at a MSP that provides cloud services and whatnot in addition to the normal tech support/engineering sorta thing. We mainly work with healthcare companies, and a great many of these have very complicated setups for what I think could be done much simpler. Maybe I'm just missing something because of my experience, but it does make my job a whole lot harder than it has to be, I think.

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