Rob, I believe the Cloud implies a public connection, whereas EDS and other outsourced providers in the past would have used direct connections. This one change can certainly introduce a greater risk of breach. Other than that, I liked my answer to this one, so did Jack. The ability to overcome "management by magazine" needs to be combated with FUD.
JP --- In [email protected], "Rob Eamon" <rea...@...> wrote: > > SearchSOA asked Morgenthal: "What questions should an enterprise architect > ask when reviewing a proposal for a cloud initiative?" > > Would these questions be different from 3, 5, 10 years ago when considering > outsourcing? Is vetting a so-called cloud provider today different from > vetting, say, EDS last year? IMO, the questions/needs/eval criteria for > considering outsourcing of infrastructure, hosting, etc. have not changed. > > Is there anything new that "cloud computing" has introduced? > > -Rob >
