Comments on: SQL SERVER – Introduction to Cloud Computing http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:40:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Waqas http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-196135 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:08:59 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-196135 Sir great lesson also helping me to understand cloud computing concept.
Live long Wisdom.

]]> By: anilkumar jantikar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-77900 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:38:57 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-77900 HI Pinal,

Its an excellent article… Really it helps lot

]]> By: Zainu http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-59901 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:37:40 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-59901 The only problem with cloud is companies won’t have any direct control on their sensitive data.May be they need to use strong encryption technologies before saving the data in the databases.

You name it any thing cost would be the deciding factor.I agree with Mirka.Clients are more interested in cost cutting .With biggies like Microsoft coming into this arena it would interesting to see what approach small and mid sized companies would have with Cloud computing.
Regards,
Zainu

]]> By: Nandkishore http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-59859 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:16:19 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-59859 Good article. You can find more resources here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/resources/

In particular the “Introducing the Windows Azure Platform” by David Chappell provides a very useful guide to get started on Azure. You can find it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158011

In addition, I would also recommend the Windows Azure Training kit that you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en
This comprehensive training kit also gives samples and demos on all the components that make up the Windows Azure Platform.

There is also a Total Cost of Ownership calculator that helps quantify the value that Azure provides to customers. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/tco/

]]> By: Jay http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-59678 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:51:28 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-59678 Cloud is great but how many companies are really going to go for cloud. Just in USA, uptil now companies have invested millions of dollars on there infrastructure & majority of there databases size range from 25GB to TB. They don’t see ROI moving to cloud & what about huge investment made so far?
Do you think they will move to CLOUD ?. As Microsoft is targeting companies with small database size between 5-10GB how many are going to move to CLOUD.
There will be some movements where companies will go to cloud but will not overnight. we may see bigbuzz of cloud in 10 years from now. I my opinion SQL Azure or Amazon RDS or any other CLOUD service provider will be in a snail speed & will become static. other will fall off the market but Microsoft will be there with Azure for a while then will close down its Azure service.

Technology is changing so fast that may be in 4-5 years CLOUD will be vapourized soon.

This are just my thoughts & not my expertise.

thanks

]]> By: Kaushik R http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54647 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:36:59 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54647 Good article indeed. So far “Clound computing” had remained a grey area. With this article there is some clarity. Some more posts on this topic is very welcome. Thank a lot Pinal.

]]> By: Stefan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54577 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:44:14 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54577 I’ve read a lot of articles about costs stating “so cheap to get going”. But as mirka lajcakova says I can confirm that costs of for example amazon simpledb
are considerable.

Also security policies of storing data outside of your own house is another reason cloud computing is not for everyone and not for every type of project.

As a tech nerd I’ve looked at the REST interface for simpledb etc and find that really interesting. Both the REST interface as well as the fact that I can access my database from whatever type of app (console/unix/web page) and location I’m at. All with simple http traffic, no firewall problems etc. So honestly I think MS is overdoing it (as usual) (as well as doing it wrong) with Azure, seems like its gonna be pretty tight with Visual Studio. Same with G. App Engine where Python API makes it impossible to call it from webpages as well as own apps.

]]> By: Keith http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54535 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:46:49 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54535 This is a very interesting article regarding Cloud Computing and SQL Server. I have always questioned the logistics of moving SQL Server to a cloud environment.

]]> By: mirka lajcakova http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54468 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:36:39 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54468 what’s the point of the cloud computing when your _monthly_ cost just for the storage is more than 2 bone fidelity Xeon servers which can have ten times more storage?

well it is fine if you’re serving just text documents (say, for wikipedia) or are providing some highly-accessible community site of slashdot type, but any web 2.0 app these days ranging from forums to youtube.like sites is not possible to reside in the cloud because of the sick cost…

getting space is very cheap these days (even in RAID) and cloud computing knows that – so they will charge you a lot, monthly… in a year, you could have built your own premisies of high quality…

we’re no longer in age of pure text, there’s streaming sound, streaming videos, heavy pictures and GPS data or per-pay-view movies, and many more multimedias, where cloud computing would be great idea.

but not for the cost of storage is denying anyone to go that way (unless you have tens of thousands of dollars to spend each month).

this is not a rant, a holy truth, just calculate cost yourself (I’ve done it)

]]> By: Andrew http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54463 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:18:37 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54463 Graham touches on the huge concern with this concept, one which Open Source software has been fighting for a long time. Can your business trust the third parties to provide a secure, reliable service and round the clock support if it all breaks down.

Individuals probably won’t mind if they can’t access Google Docs but businesses don’t have that luxury and if they don’t sign up, where is the incentive to provide these services?

]]> By: Graham http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54325 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:32:03 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54325 You say “In cloud computing, security is tremendously improved because of a superior technology security system, which is now easily available and affordable.”, that assumes you trust the company you’re giving all your data to…

]]> By: Kuldip http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54324 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:29:01 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54324 Hi Sir,
It’s slide hard to understand but,
after reading two times i try to understand basics of
cloud computing.
Overall nice article to learn new thing.

]]> By: Vijay http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54308 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:00:48 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54308 eXcellent Article Pinal.

]]> By: Jacob Sebastian http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54300 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:50:23 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54300 Very interesting article Pinal. What is most valuable here is the simple explanation of cloud computing that you put in this article.

I would love to see a few follow up posts specific to SQL Azure. http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sql.mspx. It will be really interesting to see a little more details on how SQL Server works on the cloud.

]]> By: kevin swain http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/31/sql-server-introduction-to-cloud-computing/#comment-54292 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:01:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6168#comment-54292 Great blog Cloud computing is a very confusing place at the moment none of my fellow DBA’s fully understand the platform me included. It would be good to see some more posts on this subject.

Kevin

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