Comments on: How ATT, Michael Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett Ruined My “Cloud” Plans http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/07/23/how-att-michael-jackson-and-farrah-fawcett-ruined-my-%e2%80%9ccloud%e2%80%9d-plans/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Daryl Plummer http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/07/23/how-att-michael-jackson-and-farrah-fawcett-ruined-my-%e2%80%9ccloud%e2%80%9d-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Daryl Plummer Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:07:35 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/?p=148#comment-309 I thought my post made it clear who was the provider and who was the consumer but your point is well taken. I was attempting to become a cloud provider to my friends who were the consumers. However, in that effort, I was a consumer of ATT "services" through U-Verse and it was not as easy for me to deliver the sloution as it should have been. Cloud computing SHOULD make things easier where it is supposed to but in this case it did not. I thought my post made it clear who was the provider and who was the consumer but your point is well taken. I was attempting to become a cloud provider to my friends who were the consumers. However, in that effort, I was a consumer of ATT “services” through U-Verse and it was not as easy for me to deliver the sloution as it should have been. Cloud computing SHOULD make things easier where it is supposed to but in this case it did not.

]]> By: Scott McCellan http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/2009/07/23/how-att-michael-jackson-and-farrah-fawcett-ruined-my-%e2%80%9ccloud%e2%80%9d-plans/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Scott McCellan Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:48:01 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/daryl_plummer/?p=148#comment-308 Myth: Cloud computing is supposed to make things [simpler]... Fact: Cloud computing is not magic. I only makes thing simpler for the consumer of the cloud server. The reality is, making it simple for end users to (share, get at things, etc), is hard and the state of the art is that service providers have to do a lot of hard work to make things simple. Morale: whenever you talk about "cloud computing" it is important to dsitinguish as to whether you are talking about it from a service consumer or service provider perspective. They are in fact oposites in most case. Provider has to worry about everything... they can't just think of things using simple metaphors like a "cloud"... only the service consumer gets that luxury. Myth: Cloud computing is supposed to make things [simpler]…

Fact: Cloud computing is not magic. I only makes thing simpler for the consumer of the cloud server. The reality is, making it simple for end users to (share, get at things, etc), is hard and the state of the art is that service providers have to do a lot of hard work to make things simple.

Morale: whenever you talk about “cloud computing” it is important to dsitinguish as to whether you are talking about it from a service consumer or service provider perspective. They are in fact oposites in most case. Provider has to worry about everything… they can’t just think of things using simple metaphors like a “cloud”… only the service consumer gets that luxury.

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