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24 Jun 08
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CEO Joe Tucci barely touched on EMC's plans for cloud computing at EMC World last month, but you can be sure he's thinking about it. The cloud by its very nature is a virtual computing environment, and where there's virtualization, there's EMC, owner of VMware
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He hints at enabling on-premises server infrastructure to scale up via on-demand virtual servers, disaster-recovery scenarios, and using management software like that acquired in VMware's purchase of B-hive Networks to maintain service-level agreements
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where does the data reside
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How will where it is stored affect your liability for such things as privacy, retention, search, seizure etc
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Who's law applies to the data
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some reserve the right to use your data for other purposes
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If for some reason you decide to change vendor, how difficult will it be to get our data back
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SaaS vendors hold the data captive, or the data can be retrieved, however the vendor retains a copy, which as you no longer have a contract with them they can sell to your competitors.
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if you want a highly reliable, very robust, and secure service for the least amount of money then you should host it yourself. If, on the other hand, one or more of those criteria can be stretched (mostly available; usually works; probably secure) then there is savings to be found.
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cloud computing borrows and leverages from proven concepts many of which are decades old
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of all utilizes commodity hardware
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is flexibility in that its possible to reconfigure the cloud on the fly
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