Panelists: George Jaquette, Intacct Chris Richardson, Cloud Foundry Praful Shah, Ringcentral, Inc. Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs Moderated by: Tim Guleri, Sierra Ventures

What is good to run on the cloud vs what is not?

• Engineer for order of magnitude with the time you will be on it, 2 boxes that are different cost time to integrate.
• Startup without a proven business idea, you probably won’t have the ability to get enough hardware as the cost is high, or if you do you don’t want to be locked into a long term contract

Business application where there is a reason to start with and stay with cloud?

• Predictability, large capacity (invest ahead of sales and usage), appliance rather than software as a service model
• Cost benefits depend on application you are going to deliver and who your customer is.
  • If webex is down for a little bit does not hurt business situation.
  • If Ringcentral goes down due to lack of control in the cloud since the enterprise is buying a specific product, this will kill the business.

Vendor lock in?

• Standard stack will run anywhere
• Scalable services provided by Amazon lock you in and you can’t trade it away

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