[LINK] RFC: Cloud Computing

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 9:54 +1100 24/11/09, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> ...
>> Cloud environments might be OK for isolated applications, but 
>> extending your operational environment into a cloud is fraught with 
>> both problems and risks.
> 
> Among other things, I'm going to have to do some differentiation 
> between applications, based on their importance.
> 
> The 'mission-critical' jargon is dopey (an inappropriate import from 
> military contexts, where it *does* make sense).
> 
> But some concept may be needed such as 'capable of bankrupting me if 
> it goes wrong', to distinguish from 'would be a handy adjunct to our 
> marketing analysis' and 'can go missing for a few days and it won't 
> matter much'.
> 

Roger,

Perhaps the plus side of the cloud is
the redundancy of systems and the
opportunity for verification of information
  (in the vein of 10 point ID). Though
ofcourse the downside is that if the
information is from a single
source/feed, then it perpetuates or
accentuates the error. So, perhaps this
is a paradigm shift.

As far as outages go, perhaps you
would like to consider the impact
of the outages at Stock Exchanges
as a case study.  see:
London shares chaos
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/702573.stm>

Picking up on Bernard's distinction
between evangelists and old timers,
I am an old time evangelist who thought
we would have achieved cloud
computing/web 2.0  a little earlier see:
The Internet as a Vehicle for Service
Delivery. First Presented 11 August 1999
Government Online Forum
Internet World Australia '99 - August 2-4
<http://ramin.com.au/marg/services.html>

It is also worth reading Methodology for
evaluating the socio-economic impact of
interoperable  EHR and ePrescribing
systems, as it provides a useful overview
of several investment frameworks. It also
discusses privacy (presumeably in the
EU context) and risks associated with
the Electronic Health Records.
It is available here:
<http://www.ehr-impact.eu/downloads/reports.html>

Marghanita
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