For those of you that missed it, Edward Walker, a research scientist at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, has a paper out that provides a bit of a reality check for cloud computing. In “The Real Cost of a CPU Hour,” Walker starts by asking whether or not outsourcing your cyberinfrastructure needs to the cloud is really all it’s cracked up to be — the answer seems to be no.
Considering a Cloud? Cost Isn’t Everything…
March 19, 2010