In my perusing of various blogs and articles this morning I ran across this one, “Overcoming Fear Of The Cloud“

Over the next few days and weeks I will be introducing and detailing individual features and functionality of the nScaled Cloud Computing console via this blog series.  It’s my goal to provide more information, thoughts, options and demonstrations of how nScaled, Inc. provides business continuity to our clients.  This first post will be a general introduction to the nScaled Cloud Computing Console and a small screencast of what happens when a server starts in the nScaled cloud.

Lately I have been noticing an accelerating trend (albeit completely anecdotal) of web services starting to imitate one another. The followers start to look like the leaders, or they adopt the best practices proven by the leaders as their own, and these pretty soon become industry standards.

An important part of most discussions about clouds is an analysis of costs. People are strongly driven to try to reduce the costs of their burdensome infrastructure, particularly when a large part of it is almost never used (the DR provisions), yet is as costly as the primary in some cases. Most technical people we talk to are impressed with nScaled solutions, but that appreciation is viewed differently when they have to present it to their management team and justify the investment, and so the talk inevitably turns to costs.