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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
