I ran across this IDC chart on what customers want with cloud computing service providers. The survey is from August 2008 so it’s pretty current.
Overall not so surprising that cost and performance are at the top of the list. I was a bit surprised that an established provider fell into a lower percentile. I guess that’s mitigated by the #4 response, the ability to “move offerings back on-premise”; assuming that means being able to move data back on-premise. I would have figured that being an established provider would be more important.
A recent Information Week Cloud Services: What do you want?
I spent a good part of the last hour following links to stories about security and privacy lapses in Google Docs. I started out with a TechCrunch article detailing additional security loopholes that a security expert had recently uncovered including:
- Embedded images in protected documents that never go away and that get saved to an open server
- The new diagram feature of Google Docs saves all previous versions of the diagram and makes them available to anyone who can read the doc, even if you’ve set the diagram to view only mode
- Sometimes users still can access documents after their permissions have been revoked
These are pretty serious issues for customers who use Google Docs in a true collaborative… Continue reading: The Fog of Cloud Computing
from Karen Hobert’s Connecting Dots by Karen Hobert
Since its announcement of the Software+Services strategy in 2006, Microsoft has been steadily refining and growing it’s online offerings. Over the last two years Microsoft has unveiled it’s strategy at regular intervals. Thus far we’ve been taken from the S+S strategy in the summer of 2006 through the general availability of US-based consumer and business grade hosted messaging, communications, and collaboration services in November 2008. Last week Microsoft’s cloud got bigger with the general availability of worldwide Microsoft Online Services for any sized company. According to Microsoft’s press release:
…the Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services, is now available for trial to businesses of all sizes in 19… Continue reading: A Bigger Microsoft Cloud
I ran across this IDC chart on what customers want with cloud computing service providers. The survey is from August 2008 so it’s pretty current.