Comments on: Cloud Computing – Is it just a bunch of fluff?

By: Will

Will — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:46:18 +0000

“The Hosting Fog” – I like that. Feels like what we’ve had so far from any vendor. Thanks for the detailed response. It’s nice to see it’s not just me that’s noticing this.

I hear people ranting and raving about “cloud” this and that, but nobody really challenging the technology or concept to hold true to what it’s promised.

By: PhilR

PhilR — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:12:39 +0000

This is not a new concept, just some new technologies being “thrown” at it. For decades, the “cloud” was a convenient metaphor used by the telecommunications industry to hide a mosh pit of acronyms. Today, it’s used to describe a methodology for the delivery of computer services and applications; you don’t need to know what’s in there, only that it gives you something you want. That is neither new nor profound. In the 1970s it was timesharing. More recently it has been called on-demand or utility computing.

Bottom line is, with any data center running business critical applications, whether those applications are critical to your business or someone else’s, these applications and underlying hardware platform need to be up. Without access to your data, it’s more of a “fog” then a cloud…

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:14:05 +0000

Great observation. After going public, you have to prove to investors that you are growing. What better way than to turn to M&A for a growth story. Their cloud architecture still has several “single-point of failure” issues in the design causing stability issues.