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SDForum: Shaping the New Age Of App Development, Role of the infrastructure in the cloud

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Randy Bias, GoGrid Ken Oestreich, Egenera Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Moderated by: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek

Manage infrastructure level like painting of golden gate bridge—servers die but system is built for failure
Possible potholes—comfortable with more automation, releasing control from statically monitored and controlled environs
Organizational potholes (apps, virtualization etc) separate organizationally. More cloud changes people’s jobs change.
A lot more variability in the service you will get from hardware site, because not all of them can meet SLA
Cloud isn’t always virtual—particularly the in house versions.
Mckinsey report says current enterprises have utilization of 15% once everything finishes running its 38%. Gogrid is running at 75% currently. Client speed, elasticity, cost savings (don… Read More’t need to be on for a whole day). In reality enterprises will take long time to move production environment on cloud and they shouldn’t quickly either. But those use cases that are cyclical would really benefit from being on the cloud.— Randy Bias from GoGrid
Failover for systems has to be managed at the CPU & Network layer, not at the VM layer above, Ken Oestreich, Egenera DR