In The Trenches Cloud Computing Club Experts | VMworld 2010
Getting the real deal from entrepreneurs and experts in cloud. John Furrier of SiliconANGLE.com sits down with experts in the cloud trenches to get the proof points at VMworld 2010 at theCube. Guests: Rich Miller, Bernard Golden, and Randy Bias Cloud computing is a higher-level concept that describes the architecture of how computing is essentially designed to work. Many understand this as applications that run out on the cloud -- the somewhere out there concept that can refer to the internet or an internal network. The revolution in design here is in that performance, provisioning, development, and scalability all offer distinct advantages within the model. This is due to the fundamental focus or rather lack of focus on the underlying infrastructure. The perceived freedom from the limitations of hardware and infrastructure is what makes cloud computing different. If you want to call utility computing a utility service, well then that is fair. But cloud computing is different and represents a radical change in capacity, evolution, and presence in technology. It deserves its own name. I don't believe the name is something that has just changed. It certainly has evolved and perhaps the name may have as well, but this is not one for one. Cloud computing is actually a movement and one that is currently evolving. True cloud computing must deliver on the many promises that this model provides. I suppose utility computing hosting doesn't have that "sexy" ring of cloud provider. A repackaged managed/shared hosting offering is not cloud computing, no matter how sexy the marketing or interface. Read the full article "Cloud Computing and That Utility Analogy..." by JOHN CASARETTO, and more on Cloud Computing, here: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/02/04/cloud-computing-and-that-utility-analogy%E2%80%A6/