Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: The impact on customers

http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/blog/2011/03/18/18-pure-iaas-cloud-death-part-1

by cloudsigma • 15 years ago

15 7 15 years ago

Worth mentioning, another strategy for customers is to use an abstraction layer. Good ones include jclouds and libcloud. Still take the point about focus/quality.

cloudsigma2• 15 years ago

Yes this is definitely possible and a multi-vendor approach in the cloud is achievable at quite a low bar in terms of customer size. You only need to look at outages at Reddit and many others to see the benefit of that approach.

wmf2• 15 years ago

What would be great is an auth and billing abstraction layer so that a customer could buy services from multiple providers on the same account.

cloudsigma2• 15 years ago

Yes, all cloud brokerage attempts have so far stuck to the resources and avoided trying to do any unified billing. Its really tough to accomplish.

Can you think of other areas where competing services have common open billing? Great for sure but difficult commercially. Especially when you start bringing in credit risk and other non-technical factors.

david-jennings• 15 years ago

That would be excellent not just for IaaS but also PaaS services.

miha123• 15 years ago

People asked: "what do you mean by "pure" IaaS?" It is a legitimate question, as the bare iron needs an operating system, some utilities, in order to be usable. In reality "pure IaaS" is the absolute minimum PaaS required to set up a server or a cloud infrastructure.

How do we define the "minimum" PaaS? Some IaaS providers take themselves the decision -take it or leave it - on behalf of the customers. Very few IaaS providers, like CloudSigma, are offering customers the freedom to choose what they need, what it works for them, what they like.

Death of the Pure IaaS Cloud: The impact on customers

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