eBay to build its own private cloud
Summary: At the RSA 2011 conference here in San Francisco, technology futurist Paul Saffo talks to eBay's chief security information officer about how the company's intent on building an eBay version in the cloud to handle its growth. The private cloud will have the ability to run in its own data center or with a third-party data center.
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RE: eBay to build its own private cloud
Sure, you've gotta keep adding capacity if you're gonna meet the needs of a growing max load, but the real value of a walled garden goes unsaid: the price of liability-level security seems to settle around 20% processor cycle overhead--as soon as you squeeze more efficiencies out of your design, you can be sure new concerns will require those freed resources. If you're trying to flatten the delta between peak demand and median usage, you know where you've gotta look.
A private cloud on its own can mean reduced exposure, but to keep the cost of due diligence from expanding at the same rate that capacity does requires a proprietary, unfamiliar architecture. The only reason to mention Microsoft that many times is to see if it bothers anybody.