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Guests:
- James Segil, President of Edgecast
- David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital
- Uri Budnik, Rightscale

Twitter: @twicloudcomp

Sponsor: Virtacore

The show started with a discussion about the different definitions of ‘what Cloud Computing is’. Uri felt it was infrastructure as service; James thought it was a return to centralized mainframe computing and David thought about it more broadly, including the application layer in his definition: software as a service, such as Salesforce.com, are ‘cloud’ in David’s opinion. However, everyone agreed that Cloud Computing is ‘an inkblot word’ which many people use in many different ways.

The conversation then moved to ‘The Mark-laughlin Group’ where Mark brought four issues to the discussion in the format of the popular PBS show:

Issue 1:
One of the promises of Cloud Computing is that it frees you from the need to create your own datacenter. No more getting your hands dirty with physical machines and wires and racks! Also, you don’t have to pay a systems person to maintain all that hardware, never mind to harden your systems against hacker attacks. In short: you are now free to focus simply on your application without hardware headaches, and this is cheaper because of economies of scale. Question: Is cloud computing really cheaper?

Issue 2:
There are many big players claiming to offer ‘Cloud Computing’. From IBM to Google to Microsoft to Amazon, everyone and their brother is seeking to dominate this new paradigm.
On a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing zero possibility and 10 representing complete metaphysical certitude Will one player rise and become the dominant force in cloud computing?

Issue 3: How do I know cloud vendors are actually providing me with the unshared processing, memory and bandwidth they say that they are? How do you benchmark cloud services against one another?

Issue 4: Is the cloud more vulnerable to hacker attack? Case in point: Google in December suffering a massive attack in China.

Then the ‘Cloud? … or Not Cloud?” segment began … it did not go exactly as planned, but several insights fell out:
a) The Cloud is very good for short term, very large deployments
b) Facebook, Twitter, etc. do not use the cloud, they build their own datacenters. Therefore, it is not completely mature yet.

Last was the news. Stories covered:
- Cloudkick Launches Cloud Monitoring
- HP in several news stories cloud-related
- Is the death of the data center exaggerated?
- Are private or hybrid clouds the first step to full-cloud implementations?

This Week in Cloud Computing starts live at 3 PM PST/6 PM EST on Wednesdays!
Joining hosts Mark Jeffrey and Amanda Coolong will be special guests James Segil, CEO of Edgecast and David Hornick of August Capital.

Episode 1 is sponsored by Virtacore!

Virtacore Systems, Inc. assists IT managers with the expertise, infrastructure and on-going support they need to maximize use of virtualization technology and Cloud Computing to reduce IT costs, improve efficiency and meet compliance requirements.
Based on an assessment of goals and budget, Virtacore provides vendor agnostic advice and custom designed private, public and hybrid managed cloud solutions including life-cycle support. Virtacore owns and maintains all underlying hardware and operating system software resulting in lower capital, operating costs and headaches for customers.

All solutions are hosted in Tier III carrier neutral data centers insuring maximum physical security, connectivity options and lower latency. Customers are assigned a virtual team of data center engineers and technicians who monitor and maintain their solution 24×7x365 freeing your internal staff for essential tasks and projects.

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Tune in Live! Wednesday February 17th, 2010 for the premiere episode of This Week in Cloud Computing at 3pm PST!

This Week in Cloud Computing is an informative weekly series all about the hot new trend towards abstracting and virtualizing computing resources.  We cover the players and providers, the applications and technologies, and the benefits — as well as the drawbacks.  A rotating panel of experts joins us each week to discuss and debate the news and developments of the day.  For the very best and latest in analysis of this important topic, This Week In Cloud Computing has you covered.