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The true costs of hosting in the cloud

The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 4, 2018 23:40 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: The true costs of hosting in the cloud by Cyberax
Parent article: The true costs of hosting in the cloud

I believe that is within IBM's range of products. IBM will sell you hardware and software to set up your own data center, will supply the labor to construct and/or operate your data center (running your own cloud or not), will rent you bare metal machines in an IBM data center, will rent you virtual machines in an IBM data center, or will sell you services such as a database running in an IBM data center.

The only thing I think is missing from this product spectrum is renting you space in an IBM data center to place your own equipment.

I've heard many times that people are willing to pay a premium to have their own data center because of the risk that some other tenant of a public cloud will hack them. It seems like a low risk to me, but then we have news like Spectre/Meltdown where ostensibly a program running in Company A's AWS virtual machine can see the data in Company B's AWS virtual machine, and I can believe people are willing to pay that premium.

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The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 5, 2018 2:18 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, AWS has dedicated hosts and dedicated instances (two different products) that ensure that your VMs will not share the same physical hardware as other customers.

And if you go to IBM for your software then you truly deserve what you'll get.

The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 6, 2018 16:49 UTC (Tue) by gfernandes (subscriber, #119910) [Link] (1 responses)

>>And if you go to IBM for your software then you truly deserve what you'll get

Hear! Hear!
:)

The true costs of hosting in the cloud

Posted Mar 8, 2018 14:48 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

SUSE Linux?

:-)

Cheers,
Wol


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