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Originally Posted by orgeebee
For me at least, the jury's still out on that one. I'm running on both right now (physical and cloud).
So far the cloud is experimental for me. One thing with cloud vs Wowza streaming is that the disk IO requirements for high-traffic Wowza steaming can very easily overwhelm the shared storage that clouds typically use. Unless you spend big bucks on a really high-end environment (Cisco UCS + NetApp for example).
Anyway, must my first thoughts so far..
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I would hope most cloud providers would be using something of the level of a NetApp.
Make sure to ask what SAN they are using. If it is something on that level, and they are using a real SAN. Cloud would be better 'TECHNICALLY' then one dedicated server. That is if the provider is doing cloud the right way. Learn cloud and ask questions, before you do that. But it is a better technology. You should also ask what kind of servers, what virtualization platform they are using, etc. A lot of people have different ideas of what cloud is and you dont want to get caught in the hype of someone doing it the wrong way.
Edit,
UCS is the BOMB.