{"id":1541,"date":"2010-09-22T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2010-09-22T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T15:00:07","slug":"cloud-computing-working-through-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-working-through-the-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Working Through the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many early adopters of cloud computing are enjoying the benefits, but the journey isn’t necessarily without bumps. \u00a0Consider the case of Eli Lilly. \u00a0Lilly enjoys all that benefits that utility-like on-demand computing can provide.<\/p>\n

At Eli Lilly, hundreds of scientists have been using Amazon AWS computing power to perform high-performance research. \u00a0 Storage and processing power can be adjusted up or down based on the current activities in the business. \u00a0An Amazon virtual server can be deployed in three minutes compared to the previous seven and a half weeks that had been needed to bring a new machine on line. \u00a0Dave Powers of Eli Lilly<\/a> said that \u00a0“the deployment time is really what impressed us. It’s just shy of instantaneous.” \u00a0Powers also sees the cloud as a focal point where internal researchers could share and collaborate with researchers from outside their company.<\/p>\n

That Amazon-Lilly relationship was reported to have hit a snag this summer though. \u00a0In late July an article in Search Cloud Computing reported that Eli Lilly was planning to drop the use of Amazon services<\/a> or at least to not to move forward with expanded use of the service because of a conflict over terms in the licensing, particularly in the area of legal indemnification. \u00a0The report said that Eli Lilly wanted Amazon to accept more accountability for potential problems that might occur, like security breaches and network outages. \u00a0But Amazon was said to have pushed back. \u00a0Eli Lilly was said to have been frustrated that Amazon was unwilling to negotiate anything different than what was part of their standard contract. \u00a0The story was later <\/a>disputed <\/a>by Amazon’ CTO Werner Vogels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the story wasn’t true, it does highlight the anxiety that many customers are feeling about cloud computing. \u00a0Customers need to be able to come to terms with their cloud vendors on important contract points, especially in the area of how potential risks are to be shared by the two parties. \u00a0It also highlights the need for vendors to be totally transparent in their licensing terms\u00a0to win over customers who are hesitant to jump over to the cloud.<\/p>\n

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Many early adopters of cloud computing are enjoying the benefits, but the journey isn’t necessarily without bumps. \u00a0Consider the case of Eli Lilly. \u00a0Lilly enjoys all that benefits that utility-like on-demand computing can provide. At Eli Lilly, hundreds of scientists…<\/span><\/p>\n

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