Enomaly offers a new cloud computing service – But The Sceptics Are Already Out In Force
A new development in the cloud computing world caught my attention the other day.
According to a new story published on the Technologyreview.com site, Canadian-based cloud platform provider Enomaly has come up with a new service where companies can lease off their unused capacity to customers.
The service, named SpotCloud, is an innovative idea and so far many buyers and sellers have shown keen interest.
What the company are doing is providing a platform where cloud platforms can transfer jobs to sellers, which they accomplish in large part using Google’s App Engine.
Enomaly do not only get providers who are into the cloud computing business, but even firms who have a totally different suite of products and services.
The thing that binds all sellers is that they have idle capacity that they can make good use of and eventually profit from.
One of the best things going for SpotCloud, at least in my eyes, is that buyers can choose the geographical location of a seller. For example a company based out of New York City can choose a provider that is located in the same area, or in nearby cities. In addition, customers can also choose to use a facility that possesses the processing capacity that they need.
With this service customers can also select a seller based on price, benefitting firms that are on a tight budget. If you are not that particular about location, you can select one that offers the best value for money.
Over the course of Enomaly launching this service, they have discovered that prices of sellers based in Silicon Valley not surprisingly charge cheap fees, whereas prices of providers in Asia or Latin America normally are on the expensive side.
For their part, Enomaly conducts their own background checks on would be providers to ensure that their standards are up to par. However, one thing that doesn’t sit so well with me is Enomaly’s policy of non-disclosure on the identity of its sellers.
Even if they do conduct their own due diligence with regards to ensuring the reliability and integrity of their providers, I for one would prefer to know who I am dealing with.
As it is, cloud computing at the current time has yet to generate a substantial fan base due to concerns about security, and Enomaly’s move does not help the image of the industry a bit. In fact, I think it detracts from it further. It will certainly be interesting to see whether this idea actually takes off or not, given current suspicions.
On the other side, SpotCloud is still at its beta phase and improvements are sure to be made in the coming days. Do not get me wrong, I think that SpotCloud is a wonderful product. However, I believe that for it to become really successful in the marketplace, Enomaly has to make vendor buyer relationships more transparent.
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