http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/11/04/commentary-on-computerworlds-stormy-weather-7-gotchas-in-cloud-computing/ "Complex Infrastructure Made Easy™" Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/11/04/commentary-on-computerworlds-stormy-weather-7-gotchas-in-cloud-computing/#comment-676 Rene Bonvanie Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:32 +0000 http://blog.gogrid.com/?p=489#comment-676 Great post and a good set of observations. My comment, as most comments, was probably a bit too generic and I immediately admit that I’ve seen some great vendors with great expertise. But I can also tell you that in our quest to be a “server-free” IT organization, we have seen a rather unhealthy spread of service levels and expertise from our vendors. I applaud vendors like GoGrid who take the time and effort to really make their service production-quality, but the mad dash to SaaS/cloud computing (often driven by valuation expectations) have pushed many others to the point of near-recknessless. We have more than once found ourselves debugging and solving their problems, which wasn’t what we signed up for…ranging from having to provide DBA expertise to augment theirs, to network engineers to help solve the “last mile” issues to us and our customers.

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