Tuesday, June 14, 2011

follow-up on cloud computing

This valuable follow-up on cloud computing is thanks to Susan Risdal of Enterprise Technology Services, LLC: “The biggest drawback of working on the cloud is that you no longer own your data. Anything you put onto Google docs ultimately belongs to Google. Same with Gmail. Because of that my company is building its own cloud for our largest client (350+ users). Once the infrastructure is in place and operating to our (top) security standards, we'll offer it to our small business clients to share. This way everyone has more control over their own data. When Microsoft first offered the cloud, is was billed based on bandwidth. That can be inexpensive (for a low-use company) becoming very expensive for a company as it grows. There are certain attacks against a website, called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The most common method is to saturate the hosting server with requests for service. We asked the Microsoft reps if they take responsibility for protecting against those attacks and they said "no". A DDoS attack drives bandwidth to its max and insures it stays there so that no one else can use the website. Therefore, on a bandwidth billing system, if a competitor hit you with a DDoS attack, you could go out of business in a few hours because you'll owe Microsoft hundreds of thousands of dollars (our guys calculated it at $350,000/hour.”

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