Do you see the cloud in your 2010 crystal ball? It’s always fun to see
Category: Cloud
Having founded my own cloud company back in 2005, I became familiar with all the trials and tribulations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS businesses long before the terms were coined. We delivered a video distribution and sharing service for consumers, a video PaaS for businesses, and built our own scalable and elastic video IaaS platform in multiple datacenters (since Amazon Web Service didn’t yet exist).
The phrase “cloud computing” originated from the cloud symbol that is usually used by flow charts and diagrams to symbolize the Internet. The principle behind the “cloud” is that any computer connected to the Internet is connected to the same pool of computing power, applications, and data. Users can store and access personal files such as music, pictures, videos, and bookmarks or play games or use productivity applications on a remote platform. Almost all users of the Internet may be using a form of cloud computing though few realize it.
I believe Cloud Computing is disrupting enterprise and consumer software markets as we know it. Currently we’re seeing more and more deployments of Software As A Service (SaaS) for business users and consumers; Platform As A Service (PaaS) for application developers; and Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) for IT organizations.
You’ve probably experienced a derivative of Balanced Scorecard (Balanced Scorecard Management or BSM) if you’ve
Thanks to the team at Appirio, we have yet another view of the cloud ecosystem,
Is there still confusion? When you read articles like this one from Information Week by
What is High Availability (HA)? My best definition is best depicted in terms of the
VMware announced vSphere 4 on April 21, 2009 and released it today, May 21, 2009.
I was re-reading Appirio‘s Top 10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009 today and thinking to
Sourced originally from Peter Laird’s work published September, 2008 here (and later updated and presented
Who’s providing Public Cloud services? When we talk about “public cloud”, we’re talking about 3rd
There are many different ways to categorize the players involved in enabling the Cloud Computing