{"id":1546,"date":"2008-08-01T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2008-08-01T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:21:39","slug":"whose-cloud-is-it-anyway-goodbye-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/whose-cloud-is-it-anyway-goodbye-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Cloud Is It Anyway? Goodbye Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am not a fan of FUD<\/a>, but I do like begrudging pragmatism, which is why I enjoyed this Fatal Exception piece<\/a> from Neil McAllister.<\/p>\n

I reported recently on the physical<\/em> challenges of getting data back from a cloud once you’d stored it there<\/a>, but here Neil, pointing to a review of cloud computing services<\/a>, focuses on the issue of supplier agreements, SLAs, or their lack in cloud computing. Its a really important point. <\/p>\n

In a cloud computing environment, the vendor holds the strings. If at any time the vendor decides that a customer is in violation of the terms of its service, that customer’s application can go dark now, immediately, and completely unilaterally — SLA be damned. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Downey likes to say The Web is Agreement<\/a>, but perhaps more importantly for businesses The Web Is Contract.<\/p>\n

Perhaps at the next CloudCamp – rumored to be in NY (any word, Geir<\/a>?) we can run a solid discussion about the contyctual and legal aspects of what Dion Hinchliffe<\/a> has defined as Cloudsourcing<\/a>. Perhaps we could even create some standard<\/a> templates for agreements. <\/p>\n

One guy I am absolutely sure would have been all over these supplier agreements, fighting the users’ corner as ever is Ed Foster of gripelog<\/a> fame. He passed away last weekend, and will be sorely missed. Ed really was an advocate for the user. <\/p>\n

photo credit, barto<\/a>, under CreativeCommons Attribution 2.0 license. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of FUD, but I do like begrudging pragmatism, which is why I enjoyed this Fatal Exception piece from Neil McAllister. I reported recently on the physical challenges of getting data back from a cloud once you’d stored it there, but here Neil, pointing to a review of cloud computing services,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-oW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}