Comments on: Think like a Startup and you too can Deploy in the Clouds http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378 Three Keys to a Winning IT Department - Technology, Business, and People Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:15:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: johnny http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-192 johnny Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:35:00 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-192 5eLcp9 Thanks for good post 5eLcp9 Thanks for good post

]]> By: MikeKavis http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-187 MikeKavis Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:35:29 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-187 @Sandy, Oh, I still wonder about how his app was designed and how his EC2 instance was configured. Now if he moved it to another vendor and it ran faster with the same config, then I would raise an eyebrow! @Sandy,

Oh, I still wonder about how his app was designed and how his EC2 instance was configured. Now if he moved it to another vendor and it ran faster with the same config, then I would raise an eyebrow!

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-186 Sandy Kemsley Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:49:21 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-186 Neither my acquaintance nor I said that the cloud was too slow for BPM, he just said EC2 was slow. There are other cloud platforms. Neither my acquaintance nor I said that the cloud was too slow for BPM, he just said EC2 was slow. There are other cloud platforms.

]]> By: MikeKavis http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-183 MikeKavis Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:25:41 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-183 It would be interesting to see how they set it up. Which instance type did they use? They differ in memory, cores, storage, etc. How well were the web services architected? How was the database partitioned? I could see how a standard on-premise setup might not be optimal for EC2, but before I buy into that opinion that the cloud is too slow for BPM tools I would like to know more about the configuration. It would be interesting to see how they set it up. Which instance type did they use? They differ in memory, cores, storage, etc. How well were the web services architected? How was the database partitioned? I could see how a standard on-premise setup might not be optimal for EC2, but before I buy into that opinion that the cloud is too slow for BPM tools I would like to know more about the configuration.

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-182 Sandy Kemsley Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:04:04 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-182 I had a conversation today with someone who has quite a bit of practical experience with EC2, who claims that it is pretty slow -- probably okay for a functional pilot, but not for production in general. Apparently, outbound web services calls from EC2-based apps are having to go through to many layers, which would tend to kill any BPM app with a lot of web services orchestration. I had a conversation today with someone who has quite a bit of practical experience with EC2, who claims that it is pretty slow — probably okay for a functional pilot, but not for production in general. Apparently, outbound web services calls from EC2-based apps are having to go through to many layers, which would tend to kill any BPM app with a lot of web services orchestration.

]]> By: MikeKavis http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-181 MikeKavis Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:54:22 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-181 @Sandy, They sort of do. On Amazon the cost for EC2 is extremely low. You can use a tool like Elastic Server On Demand (elasticserver.com) to install a standard configuration and quickly do some proof of concepts at a very low cost. I installed a WSO2 stack and a DJango stack on my EC2 account with just a few clicks. @Sandy,

They sort of do. On Amazon the cost for EC2 is extremely low. You can use a tool like Elastic Server On Demand (elasticserver.com) to install a standard configuration and quickly do some proof of concepts at a very low cost. I installed a WSO2 stack and a DJango stack on my EC2 account with just a few clicks.

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378&cpage=1#comment-180 Sandy Kemsley Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:53:23 +0000 http://www.kavistechnology.com/blog/?p=378#comment-180 Would be great for vendors to offer pilot systems to enterprise customers: a standard image on EC2, for example, that the customer can work with themselves for a period of time. Much lower barrier to installation than an on-premise pilot. Would be great for vendors to offer pilot systems to enterprise customers: a standard image on EC2, for example, that the customer can work with themselves for a period of time. Much lower barrier to installation than an on-premise pilot.

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