Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the most widely acclaimed terms in the computer industry today. However, the true meaning has become very obscured as just about every company in the industry has taken what they were already doing and started calling it "cloud computing". This is unfortunate as it adds obscurity to perhaps the most relevant paradigm shift in a very long time and at a time when much clarity and direction is needed. As such I'd like to renew our quest to provide a concise
Probably the best next step for this discussion is to begin to build a top to bottom model of Cloud Computing. I think there are about 12 major pieces to it so this is going to take a while. As I mentioned earlier, “Cloud computing”, I believe, may in fact become the basis for most modern IT services in the next few years. We also put forth this definition with which most folks seem to agree……“Cloud computing” - packaging of computing resources in a manner that
KR asked: "What is the difference between cloud computing and software as a service?" This is a really good question. Let’s explore this space for a bit and hopefully we can come to a good answer. (I am going to attempt to be brief here so please forgive me it this is not an exhaustive study and lacks some appropriate reference.) If we look back far enough, we find most of the popular and modern terms describing advanced multi-computing are actually forms of distributed computing
In my view, the idea of cloud computing is perhaps one of the most exciting new directions the IT industry has taken in a long time. And it's becoming more real every day - as evidenced by recent announcement s, with of course a lot of opinions on how it might work out . The realization that the Internet allows most computing to be performed elsewhere or "in the cloud" is a marvelous advancement from the perspective of the end user. The other side of the cloud is a different matter