Want your
mind blown? The Motley Fool Rulebreakers released this report revealing the
significance of what has now become referred to as “the cloud.” Give it a read.
What is the
cloud?
To be clear,
the definition of cloud computing is sometimes still debated among investing
and technological professionals. In short, though, cloud computing is a new
industry where services are offered and delivered via a network, primarily the
internet. Most all firms providing cloud computing services utilize rental or
pay as you models for charging users.
Following
are 3 of some of the most utilized services:
Software
(like accounting, information systems, or HR)
Storage
(benefits of data storehouses without owning the necessary tools)
Infrastructure
(benefits of hardware and structure without owning the assets)
Does the
following image excite you?
Amazon.com
had an outage for 49 minutes on Jan. 31, and it cost big -- more than $4
million in lost sales. I'm sure many in the cloud computing community where
thinking, "Now you know how it feels." According to Network World's
Brandon Butler, "Amazon officials have said that the biggest customer of
the company's cloud division -- AWS (Amazon Web Services) -- is Amazon.com. AWS
has experienced a variety of outages during the past three years, but usually
the Amazon.com retail site is not impacted." For example, an EBS (Amazon
Elastic Block Storage) outage in October 2012 affected such customers as
Reddit. Moreover, an outage on Christmas Eve 2012 brought down Netflix, but not
the video steaming service that Amazon.com provides. In the Jan. 31 case,
Amazon.com appears to the affected party.
The crucial
fact is that those who defend enterprise computing fail to grasp the fact that
legacy IT infrastructure and operations don't address the requirements of new
application types that I label the "three M's"—mobile, media and
marketing. These apps are flocking to public cloud computing because they're
not well served by traditional infrastructure and are much more aligned with
what cloud computing brings to the table.
ElasticHosts
has launched a new style of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to challenge
Amazon, Rackspace and other major cloud service providers with its own brand of
cloud services.
ElasticHosts
announced Feb. 5 that it has nine data centers around the world, and it's
possible all nine would fit into one of Google's or Microsoft's.
Thin clients
have been around for as long as there have been computers tied together in
networks. The concept is pretty simple; individual users do not need full
access to a computer to do their work, so rather than placing a fully
functional computer on each desk, a thin client machine provides just the
functionality needed to accomplish the necessary tasks.
Thin client
systems are useful in some business and institutional settings. They have the
advantage of keeping the major computing functions, processing and storage, in
a safe, central location. There is also potential savings in software
licensing, the software is licensed to the central computer but can be accessed
from any of the thin client remote terminals.
We hope
these short sum-ups on Cloud Computing are helping you to take a knowledgeable approach
towards moving to the cloud. Stay tuned for more sum-ups on in the forthcoming week.
Don’t
forget to add your comments and suggestions. I will have more around the cloud
a week later.
Santanu Das
Marketing
Evangelist, WOLF Frameworks
NOTE: The views expressed above are purely personal and for
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