Re: Can I do my i from the cloud

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is my first concern: What if the company you choose closes up shop
suddenly tomorrow? Can you recover from that quickly? Usually, hosting a
website/application you still have the code (and hopefully good backups).
You can recover in a couple hours. Can you do that with your other
mission-critical servers?

What I think makes sense "in the cloud" is web servers, email servers, and
file servers. Each, if properly setup and backed up, isn't too big of a deal
if it is down for a couple hours. I think you could save money moving some
things to the cloud, but I can't see not having your own data center for
mission critical servers.

I can't speak so much on the i side.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Brainstorming in management meeting today.
>
> Instead of getting new Power 7 HW to replace our Power 5 HW, is the
> state-of-the-universe such that we could entertain putting our i in the
> cloud?
>
> What I mean is, no i, no physical windows servers here, it's all out there
> somewhere.  The only HW here is printers, displays, thin clients, and PC
> workstations.
>
> But I still develop in house for it, still configure it, etc.
>
>
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
> www.dilgardfoods.com
>
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
> company.  Unless I say so.
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