Re: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT

Have you seen Steve Will's latest blog posting? They are heading in that
direction.

Blog post:
http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/you_and_i/2010/02/asp-saas-and-i.html

For anybody that has used their IBMi VLP (Virtual Loaner Program) you know
that they have many of the technical hurdles already crossed to do "IBM i in
the cloud". I have used the VLP for over 5 years now and am quite impressed
with how I can configure an entirely new IBMi LPAR in about 15 minutes from
the web, and then about 2hrs later I get an email with login info for my new
IBMi LPAR. I know not everybody has had the same success as I have - as I
understand it some have issues with getting the VPN working correctly.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Google is getting a lot of attention right now by offering their "App
Engine" service which is based on several of the architectural principles
inherent in IBM i. Google is essentially saying that when you deploy your
applications under our service, you don't need to concern yourselves about
hardware, or operating system, or database, or scalability - we take care of
that for you. You just need to be aware of the high-level application,
database, and runtime interfaces you need to plug into.

I could see IBM or somebody offering a similar cloud service based on Power
7 and IBM i, and perhaps even doing it more efficiently than Google, just
because the platform is already integrated, and scales automatically. My
only question is how easy would it be to manage partitions for many
different organizations on a single computer - I'm just not familiar with
that, and the documentation is neither easy, nor intuitive?

-Nathan.