• Hey @steve-2,

    Nice post! However, I think that today there is a slew of services and tools offered “in the cloud” (for example, see this list of cloud resources for developers and that many business can utilize from this, whether very small business with a tiny IT budget to large organization with huge IT budgets and several IT-related departments. Additionally, I think that using cloud services doesn’t necessarily mean totally reworking your system architecture rather tweaking it to suit any new requirements.

    Regarding security in the cloud-

    the fact that once your data is in the Cloud anyone supporting that cloud might have access your data is important to consider.

    Well @SanDroid – access is something defined by permission, even if you use a third party service in a virtualized environment and besides, if you’re “online” there’s always the risk of someone or something gaining access to your data. I believe that companies that offer services in the cloud put quite a lot of effort into developing and testing the secureness of their services, and in any case, one should always make sure important or private data is properly secured.

    @JohnFx – I think your reference to co-location as facility as a services and the mention of hardware as a services is misleading because you are including actual physical objects while the concept of XaaS (anything as a services) refers to services that can be provided in a cloud environment.

    Cheers 🙂 Natali

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