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Anyone contemplating a move to the cloud has, by now, paused for a moment to wonder how to escape from their chosen provider of numinous computing. They've done so because shunting a virtual machine (VM) and its workloads into the cloud may seem like a fine idea today, but there are any number of reasons one may wish to place …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    SOBERING

    "They've done so because shunting a virtual machine (VM) and its workloads into the cloud may seem like a fine idea today, but there are any number of reasons one may wish to place it elsewhere in future. A few come easily to mind: your cloud provider could go titsup or become unacceptably unreliable; you may want to bring the workload back home on a matter to meet a particular need; another cloud could offer better prices, or; you might like the idea of moving the VM for disaster recovery or follow-the-moon."

    The word that most comes to mind for me regarding this article is--- its SOBERING.

  2. Chris Miller

    Numinous computing?

    nu·mi·nous (adj): Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.

    Are you thinking of nebulous, perchance?

    1. Chicken Marengo
      Angel

      Re: Numinous computing?

      >>nu·mi·nous (adj): Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.

      Well, if you're hosting your VMs with Amazon or Azure (or the clowns that we use, who I shan't be naming) you better hope there's someone watching over them.

    2. Dan 55 Silver badge
      Angel

      Re: Numinous computing?

      Apple's iCloud offers numinous computing.

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
        Angel

        Re: Numinous computing?

        BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Curious: has anyone out there actually got OVA/OVF 1.x to work?

    I tried to get VMware-sourced appliances onto Ora-VBox. The latter bounced the resulting appliance every time, complaining about checksum errors etc. Since each try takes like 8 hours, I didn't try many.

  4. Roland6 Silver badge

    Interest from Enterprise

    It would be interesting to know who in the Enterprise Gartner questioned. In some respects I would expect it to be something that Enterprise Infrastructure Architects would automatically specify and use without really involving senior management in the decision making.

    1. Don Jefe
      Meh

      Re: Interest from Enterprise

      Gartner asked whoever would give them the answers they needed to make the report acceptable to whomever commissioned it.

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