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Giorgio BertiniDion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
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Bryan LabuttaArticle from Octover 2008 talking giving some basics about cloud computing with some thoughts about how cloud computing may make initial inroads at companies.
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The first candidate cloud computing pilots will generally be outside of core IT and will be of secondary and tertiary importance to the organization. Forward thinking organizations will begin trying out providers and learning the cloud computing ropes, though certain organizations, like government agencies and others managing extremely vital information, will likely be the last to take the leap. Like any form of outsourcing, fully leveraging the cloud will take some time to get good at as IT departments get clarity around lock-in, security, scalability, reliability, governance, and real-world costs. However, it’s clear that the forecast for enterprise IT is increasingly “cloudy” for the next few years.
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The first candidate cloud computing pilots will generally be outside of core IT and will be of secondary and tertiary importance to the organization. Forward thinking organizations will begin trying out providers and learning the cloud computing ropes, though certain organizations, like government agencies and others managing extremely vital information, will likely be the last to take the leap. Like any form of outsourcing, fully leveraging the cloud will take some time to get good at as IT departments get clarity around lock-in, security, scalability, reliability, governance, and real-world costs. However, it’s clear that the forecast for enterprise IT is increasingly “cloudy” for the next few years.
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Eugenio VaccaThe days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their eventual transformation and downsizing is rapidly being laid in the
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05 Aug 08
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The promise of cloud computing has captured the industry’s imagination this year for two big reasons. The first is the growing realization that cloud computing can successfully be used to strategically cut costs and drive innovation. And the second is that current offerings are getting very close to being ready for prime-time use in enterprise environments.
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Google has a well-known reputation for globally scalable applications that can reliably service millions of concurrent users while successfully controlling costs and efficiency in everything from power and bandwidth to storage and processing power. So when they claimed that anyone can now “build scalable web apps on top of Google’s infrastructure” it received considerable attention.
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Businesses must keep costs down to stay competitive while at the same time investing in new ideas that will offer compelling new products and services to those same customers.
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Interestingly, it’s at this very intersection of issues that cloud computing appears especially compelling. By offering easy access to more efficient IT capabilities across computing, storage, and applications while providing direct and immediate access to both external innovation and innovation capability, cloud computing offers an on-demand, scalable, and repeatable resource that can be used the solve two of the major challenges facing IT departments today.
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These aspects are:
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Reduced capital expenditures
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Low barrier to entry
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Multitenancy
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Security
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Scalability and performance
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Centralization vs. federation
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Service-oriented
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Here are some of the types of cloud computing services that are emerging today:
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One type of cloud computing tends to defy traditional categorization and that’s harnessing human workers in the cloud, as a service. This is best exemplified by Amazon’s intriguing offering, Mechanical Turk, which plugs thousands of people into its on-demand cloud.
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This model includes any service which provides a consistent, service-oriented interface over a network to interact with people in a directed, collaborative manner. This is an on-demand form of outsourcing as well a cloud-based form of crowdsourcing.
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