Exclusive Interview with David Coallier of CloudSplit
Last month's IT news seemed filled with articles about the possible failure of cloud computing and questions whether the cloud is the best place for all our data. With the very public Sidekick customer data loss, hiccups with Gmail and the slow expansion of Microsoft Azure , what is happening?
I don't feel that it is the end of cloud computing but as an avid user I felt there must be more to this issue. I was lucky enough to be able to interview David Coallier, the CTO of Echolibre, who was recently featured at TechCrunch50. David is the lead architect on CloudSplit, their real-time cloud analytics solution for real-time analysis of your hosted solution. Because of their unique product, David has a unique perspective on what is happening in the cloud.
Q: How can products like CloudSplit assist with choice of cloud solution?
A: CloudSplit helps you with the analysis of your costs per application and per servers that are using "the cloud". With a thorough analysis of your costs, you are able to determine which service you are most likely to save money with. Of course, costs are not your only issues when it comes to cloud computing; you need to have a reliable service with a solid reputation and a solid technical team that you can trust with your data.
Of course, CloudSplit can't really take into account the reputation factor of each services, but in future versions we'll give you the ability to compare the costs with how much it would cost you if you were using another service.
Q: Advantages to business of comparison shopping between cloud services?
A: This is a rather tricky question because most cloud services seem to be offering nearly the same prices. However, when looking a bit closer, some are cheaper for people that require more outgoing bandwidth and some are cheaper when requiring more incoming bandwidth. One thing that seems to be often forgotten when people are comparing cloud services is also the actual availability of developers and documentation.
Cloud services will lower your costs however if you decide to use a service that has no library to interact with, your fixed costs will rise as you will need to develop and experiment with your own staff whereas if you use a cloud service with an already existing knowledge base, vibrant community and various libraries and types of documentation, your development team is going to greatly improve their productivity thus reducing your costs.
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