How often do IT services departments stray into building products without knowing and run into disaster? I would say more often than folks are willing to admit. Unfortunately, this is a big blind spot for those who have worked primarily in building services (mostly for internal clients) by buying products built by other companies. Shining [...]
In the last Silverlining Cloud Computing Group meeting on Nov 11, Branko Gerovac and David Carver shared some impressive numbers. Their take on their talk is described at their site. Below is my take.
The numbers they quoted focused on answering the question,”Is Cloud the best platform for video broadcasting?” The answer is nuanced, and to [...]
Bob Marcus sent me pointers to several cloud computing conferences that are targeted towards “enterprise class” audience. The links have pointers to papers presented in those conferences as well. Given that the progression of E-Services -> Utility Computing -> Grid Computing -> Cloud Computing has taken at least 10 years, with a detour to web [...]
Do SaaS and Cloud Computing share business models? This might sound like a foregone conclusion to some, but you never know what you discover if you compare. BTW, What are the SaaS business models?
1. “Free” Model: Provide the software use for free but some or all of the following will apply to the user.
A. Suffer [...]
Jim Cramer interviewed Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce on October 7, 2008. Mark stated that Salesforce.com would be taking the “elastic, pay as you go model” to its customers aggressively. This push on Force.com is understandably to exploit the low investment nature of cloud platform in these hard economic times. “This is the time for [...]
Charles Babcock reports in Intelligent Enterprise on September 22, 2008 that Oracle is planning to use cloud computing in collaboratin with Amazon to integrate the 3000 products it gathered through 50 acquisitions over the past 2 years. Charles Philips spoke of $3Billion targetted to be spent in 2008-2009 across “20,000 developers across 30,000 servers.” Comon [...]
A recent Goldman Sachs survey suggests that only 2% of CIOs think cloud computing is a priority. While lack of understanding of what cloud computing can offer may be one of the factors in the lack of interest by CIOs, there are other factors. Key concerns have been voiced by enterprise users [...]
Cloud computing has some attractive advantages over in-house computing resources. Below is a synopsis of these advantages.
Reduced Capital Expenditure: Using cloud platform means no physical procurement or installation of computational resources. The resources are provisioned over the Internet using a web browser, and are paid for using a pay-per-use model or subscription model. For example, [...]
Here is a table to compare how buying your own machines and software and running your own applications on them compares to deploying and/or running applications on the cloud platforms provided by players such as Amazon (Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3), 3Tera (AppLogic Platform), Force.com (Apex), Google (Google App Engine).
Task
In-House
Over Cloud Platform
Build application
Build in-house
Customize existing [...]
There are enough jargons out there, and all you need is to select your favorite flavor of the day. On-demand computing, utility computing, and grid-computing have their own definitions that may stray into or may completely define cloud computing, depending on, of course, who is doing the definition. So, what is my definition for cloud [...]
