Comments on: Will A Slowing Economy Boost Cloud Computing?

By: John Qualls

John Qualls — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:47 +0000

In our opinion, enterprise coloation is one of the best cost containment strategies for companies, allowing them to reallocate scarce resources to core business functions as they move to data centers and cloud computing solutions. The challenging economic conditions will be a boost for cloud providers, specifically BlueLock because they do not require a re-write to take advantage of their solution. In addition, they support Microsoft and Redhat.

By: Todd Lipcon

Todd Lipcon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:10:24 +0000

Seems to me that if there’s a cost advantage to “cloud” hosting, then most startups are already using it. The startups that use colocation generally have some circumstances or special requirements that require it (e.g sensitive data, need for specific hardware, or need to physically transfer large amounts of data)

By: SP

SP — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:57:45 +0000

The Appirio link needs to be updated to: http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/10/chris-barbin-theres-lot-of-talk-today.php

By: Rich Miller

Rich Miller — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:37:33 +0000

Hi Nik, We've previously written about the impact of credit availability on data center supply and the resulting "incumbent advantage". This obviously extends to the cloud as well, but I think many of the cloud startups are still leasing space, rather than building their own facilities. Again, the advantage here goes to Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

By: Nik Simpson

Nik Simpson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:53:12 +0000

I think you’ve missed a key question. Will the economic situation slow down the build out of infrastructure needed to support widescale cloud adoption. Given that large data centers tend to be debt financed (unless you are Google or Microsoft) building cloud-scale data centers may be a lot harder to finance for the next few years.