When cloud neighbours go bad
An Eastern European fable for you.
At the edge of a valley so quiet and pretty, stands a five-story building far away from the city. On each floor lives a different animal, a fat hen, a cuckoo, a pampered black cat, a voracious squirrel. The fifth floor used to be inhabited by Mr. Mouse, but he disappears, and the neighbors put up a sign: “A Flat to Let.”
The flat is shown to many animals. Each follows the same cycle of sing-song questions and exclamations. But each visitor objects to one of the other animals, and rejects the flat.
Do you like the rooms?
They are nice.
Do you like the kitchen?
It is nice.
Do you like the hallway?
It is nice.
Then dwell with us, Rabbit.
No, I won’t!
Why? I don’t like the neighbors.
How can I, a mother of twenty bunnies, dwell together with a cuckoo, which deserts her children? Her children grow up in weird nests. All of them deserted, all of them neglected. What would my children learn from them?
The cuckoo bird was hurt. And the rabbit went on her way.
Finding good neighbours is tough, and in a world of Cloud infrastructure where tenants don’t get to choose their neighbors it’s a growing concern. Coke refuses to share any infrastructure with Pepsi. Surely no one would choose Johnny Hacker as a tenant of their shared infrastructure. Infrastructure providers have responded with dedicated options, but the costs destroys the most attractive part of the cloud option - price.
Sooner or later the industry has to create a solution to crappy neighbours.
This point came directly from Shlomi Dinoor, head of Cyber-Ark Labs and you can read his three suggestions for solutions at his blog here
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