Are you thinking about setting up a cloud for deployment in your business or enterprise? Have you planned it out yet? If so, how far have you gotten with it? If you haven’t begun the setup process, check out this list of things to consider before you start deploying that cloud. It might confirm your belief that you’re on the right track — but it could persuade you otherwise.

1: Time is always an issue

The time you spend attempting to deploy a cloud will be time you never get back. Unless you happen to have a spare whiz kid hanging out in your IT department, most likely you (or your department) do not have the time to dedicate to the creation of a cloud. It’s not easy (see #3 below), and you will wind up starting over more than once.

2: Hardware needs are huge

Do you have fast enough disks? Enough RAM? Fast enough network pipes? Clouds are monsters and need monstrous hardware. Attempting to serve up a cloud on a standard server will probably only lead to frustration. And the machines they serve up on can’t be just any old machine, either — even the clients need to have some beef to them.

3: The process is difficult

Creating a cloud is no easy feat. I have spent solid weekends trying get the Ubuntu Eucalyptus cloud set up (only to be burned by #2 above). Not only is it time consuming, it is challenging. Before you begin to enter that first command (or double-click that first button), you’d better read as much as you can to understand the technology behind what you are about to deploy.

4: Network speed can be a pain

If your network isn’t as speedy as you can possibly make it, you might wind up with a lot of frustrated users. You can’t serve up a cloud without some serious bandwidth. And the more users you have, the bigger the pipes you’ll need. Are you ready to shell out the #5 for this?

5: Cost is a deal breaker

New hardware. New software. New networking hardware. It all adds up to a big negatory to many a cloud enthusiast. The server alone would break many SMBs’ IT budgets. You need huge hard drives to hold images, you need tons of RAM to keep the machine going, you need the fastest CPUs you can buy — that’s a hefty server. Amazon can do this because it has huge data farms. Your SMB does not enjoy such a beast. Are you ready to shell out the money?

6: Image(s) is(are) everything

When setting up a Eucalyptus server, you can download plenty of images to serve up. Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, and more. Can you (and your server hard disks) cover all of the images you might need within your company? And that doesn’t include apps you might need to serve up. It gets really confusing at this point. Have you done your homework? (See #3.)

7: Reliability will bring you down

I have always said (of thin clients, app servers, and now clouds) a single point of failure… will! Murphy’s Law is highly prevalent when it comes to cloud computing. Think about it. When serving up clouds, you have that much more to fail. Not only can applications and hardware fail, but your network can go down as well. And when your network goes down, your workers aren’t working. That’s bottom line, buddy.

8: Security is not on duty

How do you secure a cloud? It’s taken you how long to get your internal LAN as secure as possible? And now you’re considering the addition of yet another level of complexity to the mixture? What happens if you need to serve up data outside of the company firewall? Can you allow those telecommuters to continue telecommuting? Probably not. And when that happens, you will have a revolt on your hands.

9: It’s not environmentally sound

You know that server you built to serve up your cloud? The one that sounds like an old Pontiac Trans Am being driving by a guy with a mullet named Bud? It’s sucking down megawatts of power, and you can’t just turn that puppy off. Clouds, as they stand right now, are not environmentally friendly. And in an age when many companies are trying to put their greenest foot forward, clouds are about as irresponsible as incandescent lights.

10: Platform agnosticism is not a religion

That Eucalyptus cloud I was referring to serves up Linux. If I wanted to serve up Windows, I’d be using a Windows cloud system. Clouds almost always force you into a single platform. In today’s Windows, Mac, Linux world, a single platform won’t do. True, most SMBs are working on Windows, which means you will be using a Windows cloud platform (which means you will be shelling out plenty of cash). But if you’re lucky enough to have a homogenous environment, a cloud might not be your best bet.

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As Cisco entered the blade server market with its hotly anticipated Unified Computing System Monday, competitors lined up to dismiss the new technology, saying it raises the problem of vendor lock-in and is too limited in scope to address broad customer needs.

Cisco introduced a blade server that is based on future Intel Nehalem processors and includes memory improvements to support applications with large data sets and allow the creation of many more virtual machines on each server. Partners such as EMC, VMware, Savvis, BMC and Microsoft joined Cisco in calling the UCS a major step forward in the data center. But Cisco’s competitors offered several pieces of criticism.

A Dell executive calls Cisco’s blade server a "one-size-fits-all" product that doesn’t take into account the varied needs of customers.

"I think [Cisco is presenting] a very niche-focused approach," says Rick Becker, Dell’s vice president of software and solutions. "We believe it can’t just be a single blade appliance. You need a whole portfolio. You need to deploy blades where appropriate. You need to deploy rack servers when appropriate." (Compare server products.)

Cisco’s new product seems to be "a blade appliance for large application data sets," Becker continues. "That’s just a very small segment of the data center."

Blades are ideal for applications that span beyond 15 servers, but are wasteful for applications that only require three servers, because blades share resources like power and fans, Becker says.

Becker promises exciting news from Dell for both rack and blade servers when Intel releases its new Nehalem chips, but could not reveal details due to embargoes. While he acknowledges Cisco is now a competitor in the blade server market, he professes not to be worried. He also notes that Dell still partners with Cisco to deliver networking technology to Dell blade servers.

"I compete with HP, I compete with IBM, and I compete with Sun," Becker says. "And I am perfectly able, willing and ready to compete with Cisco in the server space."

Cisco stresses that its new technology is more than just a blade server, encompassing networking, storage and management features to create an architecture that lets data centers be managed as a unified environment.

Cisco rival Brocade recognizes its competitor’s attempt to create a "dynamic and virtualized data center" that will improve efficiency of power and operations, but accuses Cisco of locking customers in to just one vendor.

"Achieving this goal is a complex challenge that can be best tackled by a broad ecosystem of industry partners and not based on a proprietary, singular architecture of one company," Brocade said in a written statement. "In contrast, Brocade is already helping customers address these challenges by integrating our networking solutions with a range of mature computing, management and storage technologies from some of the strongest companies in the world. These partnerships are leveraging open interfaces/standards, co-developed technology, and products that are available today, which will lower costs and maximize return on investment for customers."

At Cisco’s press conference Monday morning, the company surrounded itself with partners who were naturally more optimistic than Cisco’s direct competitors. VMware CEO Paul Maritz said Cisco USC is a "cloud-grade" product that will accelerate the trend toward large-scale virtualization, and said it is incumbent upon the rest of the industry to partner with Cisco because "the whole stack has to work with them." Maritz also said there should no longer be any technical reasons to avoid virtualizing any workload, no matter how demanding it is.

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