• Cloud Connect: Metadata and Cloud Portability

    • By: Rich Miller
      February 3rd, 2009

    Cloud portability may be more complicated that is generally understood. Alistair Croll, an analyst at BitCurrent, says the value of metadata in cloud computing platforms may become an issue in migrating applications from one provider to another. Alistair discusses the issue in this video from Barton George, which was recorded at the recent Cloud Connect conference in Mountain View. This video runs about 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

    For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

    • Your Work & Online Services - blog.bismuth.com

    Posted February 3rd, 2009

    [...] evening I noticed that Data Center Knowledge had a video of Alistair Croll (who I’ve known for quite some time) talking about cloud computing and he in order to provide [...]

    Who owns the meta-data? | Andrew Wayman

    Posted February 10th, 2009

    [...] Alistair Croll points out ( in this interview) though, the question of who owns meta-data may prevent this from becoming reality. Like the [...]

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