Red Hat Cloud Evangelist Touts Community Clouds

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on November 9, 2010 at 11:33 am

The phrase of the year seems to be "cloud computing" and everyone wants a piece of the action. Plenty of businesses are singing the praises of its scalability, cost-efficiency, and nod to green computing. One nifty emerging use of cloud services is the idea of community clouds, a way for a number of groups and organizations to use a single cloud to share costs and resources.

The Register's Dan Olds caught up with Red Hat's Cloud Evangelist Gordon Haff to get his thoughts on the practical implications of community clouds and what types of companies are likely to use them. Obviously, security is a chief concern in a group cloud environment so it's probably not right for businesses that manage sensitive information. Haff says they are ideally suited for other types of companies, however.

"Perhaps in the pharma industry there may be some specific set of requirements around testing and compliance, and so forth. They might want to share a cloud among a number of companies but they can't just go out to Amazon. They have some specific requirements," says Haff. He goes on to suggest that the government could use community clouds to manage a chain of inter-agency departments with the same regulations and compliance needs in common.

Olds isn't convinced that businesses will be too quick to jump into a community cloud. "I think this type of public cloud may get some traction, perhaps for government or research organizations; however, I have a hard time seeing competitors sharing computing resources for any workloads that are even vaguely important."

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