What, me worry ? » cloud tech rant http://suhrid.net The personal weblog of Suhrid Karthik Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:54:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Clear on cloud http://suhrid.net/2009/12/clear-on-cloud/ http://suhrid.net/2009/12/clear-on-cloud/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:46:28 +0000 Suhrid http://suhrid.net/?p=73 There’s a lot of buzz about cloud computing these days.  The basic idea is to not install any software or application – but instead pay someone else who installs and runs it for you using their hardware – while you use it over the internet (aka “the cloud”).

While I am not fully informed on the subject – which anyway will not stop me from proclaiming that my vote goes to the cloud computing idea. I think its an idea whos time has come.   Why ? Because deploying and maintaining enterprise software is difficult, complex, overwhelming, yup, here’s the term I was looking for – its fucking painful.  It reminds me of the acronym – FMGWACS – Fuck Me Gently With A Chain Saw. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that’s what IT folks says when deploying enterprise software.  Order freakingly expensive hardware, invest in a rainbow of licenses, coordinate with a billion folks for a myriad variety of tasks – network teams for loadbalancing, OS teams for deploying, SAN teams for storage, cluster configuration teams and <insert-your-favourite> team. Its crazy, expensive and a time-destroyer.

I’m sure that companies will pay good money to get this monkey off their backs.  That’s why I’m betting the cloud model will kick ass someday.

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