I love the idea of beeper, but worried about the reliability of the bridges. This is super cool and give me a bunch of ideas though. Also hoping Sunbird has some other way to solve this problem.
I work for a US Stock Exchange, and some of the technologies that we rely on are not permitted in the cloud. The performance metrics we need are usually only achievable on highly tuned bare metal deployments as well so cloud is usually not an option. I guess it really depends on your workload, but I think there is a very healthy amount of production being deployed and worked on businesses own datacenter/private clouds.
Agreed, I guess these guys have a different definition of operations. This sounds more like management/compliance or maybe they should have stated Business Operations. That might might carry a more accurate description in the tech community.