Cloud Integration
For many companies Cloud technologies make sense for many different reasons. Some need the elasticity of the Cloud (the ability to scale up or down with little or no effort). Some simply need the Cloud to reduce the need for technical resources. Regardless of your reasons for entering the Cloud, it doesn’t always meet all of your needs.
Some implementations, for one reason or another, continue to maintain portions of their applications outside Cloud services, resulting in an integrated environment. Portions of their enterprise strategy remain outside the Cloud services, and are maintained separately.
This kind of implementation may increase the cost of your Cloud services. Most of the services I have reviewed have fees for external access. Often there is no additional cost for data contained inside their infrastructure. But, when the data must travel outside their proprietary networks, additional fees are incurred.
Bandwidth may be an issue for you as well, depending on the bandwidth you have for your private infrastructure. Cost may not be the only hurdle to overcome; performance may be an issue as well.
Do you have an integrated Cloud distribution? If so, why not share some of the hurdles you have had to overcome with a combined implementation. Send your thoughts to me at btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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