One of the issues that I have been thinking about is the requirements necessary to move an application to a cloud service, and to some extent, move it with little impact to end users. Amazon’s VM Import service is getting a lot of buzz lately, but in itself is about as interesting as converting a Microsoft Word Document to PDF. Sure it’s useful, but it’s not nearly half the story. VM conversion certainly isn’t a game changer for hybrid clouds. Just because you have a VM in your data center doesn’t mean you can simply push it to Amazon’s EC2 and call it a cloud.
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