[okfn-discuss] [open-science] Practical reproducible science; implications for data storage

Wed Apr 11 23:51:54 UTC 2012

personally I don't and I think AMI is the gateway drug to defacto lockin

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Nicholas Roberts
> <nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote:
> >
> > I actually think its not cheap, its a trade-off between convenience and
> cost
> > and Amazon are very smart about choosing their product / service
> placements
> >
> > in other words, there is still lots of hosting outside of Amazon i.e.
> > Rackspace, Linode ... all the way down to micro hoster resellers
> >
> > Ubuntu for instance is doing a lot to make private and hybrid cloud
> > infrastructure super easy to use and once you've got the machines
> (including
> > commodity boxes) and a windmill you're TCO approaches zero
>
> Do you think the variety of providers is enough to ensure we don't get
> locked in?  Do you see it as a large risk if Amazon becomes the
> de-facto supplier of scientific computing cycles and data hosting?
>
> Best,
>
> Matthew
>
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