Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:20 PM
Mind boggling things unvailed at PDC.
One big thing to decide is going to be our relation to the cloud.
Cloud computing has hit big and the whole idea of SAS making big business invest big.
Where do we draw the line? Hoe much of our software, data and service runs local vs. remote?
How do we develop good measure for decisionmaking here?
At the very least, aspect to be considered:
- Latency
- Scale
- Time to market
- Security
- New opportunities not available if you are just "running local" such as ms Live services.
At the very least, if we created a startup on Azure - what is the path of migration off it if / when more local control is necessary?
Asking these questions when architecting your new cloud based application is bound to have long lasting ramifications when your application usage reaches maturity.