Interesting News About Cloud Reliability

Posted by Joe Franscella –

Read an interesting blog post by Larry Dignan at ZDNet Between the Lines blog this morning, IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability. One paragraph really caught my attention:

The LotusLive iNotes launch, set to be announced on Monday, pushes reliability in a big way. Taking a jab at Google’s outages, IBM said it’s imperative that cloud computing “is ready for the enterprise when it’s designed for the enterprise, by the enterprise, and of the enterprise.” Word of IBM’s iNotes move began to surface late Thursday and Big Blue has had a LotusLive iNotes site live for days.

It begs a couple questions: 1.) Who measures reliability? Do you leave that to that to the vendor or should you use a third-party app to provide a neutral perspective; 2.) What about seurity? How is access being managed, monitored and audited? (Note to Larry – Take a look at my email offer to provide some perspective – please, please, please!)