Sins Of The Cloud

Editor?s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. In the beginning there was the cloud. And it was good. But over time it can also be surprisingly expensive. If you?ve ever said ?Oh my god,? at the end of your billing cycle, you?re may be starting to think about putting boundaries on this virtual Eden. Yet you?ll quickly find that public cloud vice is hard to stamp out. It?s ingrained into human nature and finds its expression through self-service IaaS delivery and opaque billing processes. Here are a few of the sins we?ve seen.

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