by As recently as last Summer, “real” information on using EC2 and other cloud providers was hard to come by. By “real” information, I mean accounts of actual hands-on use of clouds by system administrators. Marketing hype, CIO ROI “data”, CSO “security fears” and other low-signal information was everywhere.
Given the recent questions and discussions on LOPSA email lists, cloud isn’t going away, but there seem to be some questions about how to tell when a cloud solution is more appropriate than your own hardware or managed hosting.
It’s only recently that I’ve started seeing sysadmins blog or write about their experiences with “cloud”.
Here’s one from our own Scott McCarty a.k.a. Father Linux
Expect to see more cloud-related topics promoted to the front page, too. (Along with some other perennial favorites.)