Friday, June 26, 2009

Sun CTO douses own cloud in cold water • The Register

Sun CTO douses own cloud in cold water • The Register: "chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos doubts enterprises will move their existing applications onto this or any other data center in the sky. But Amazon cloud prophet Werner Vogels disagrees.

'I'll pour a little bit of cloud water on this,' Papadopoulos said at the cloud-obsessed Structure 09 conference in San Francisco, California, on Thursday. 'It's generally really hard and expensive and often unwise to be moving your legacy pieces over into something new in computing like this, unless you can really demonstrate what the advantages are."

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