Why the cloud is no celebrity diet
If you treat the cloud as a mere hardware weight-loss plan, you'll soon find your datacentre piling back on the pounds, says Lori MacVittie Read more
26 March, 2011 by Lori MacVittieZDNet is available in the following editions:
If you treat the cloud as a mere hardware weight-loss plan, you'll soon find your datacentre piling back on the pounds, says Lori MacVittie Read more
26 March, 2011 by Lori MacVittie
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of
...has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for
The
...cloud are very dynamic and scalable. Cloud computing is unlike grid computing,
...internet technologies built on top of diverse technologies like virtualisation, distributed computing,
...NetSuite, ExactTarget) to Web services (think Google Maps and Facebook Connect) and
...of 3PAR by HP to evaluate its suitability as a blueprint for
...fueling a dramatic growth in use of data-intensive iterative computations. The
...as a service, via the internet, and is usually billed on a
...a network connection. Cloud providers frequently offer the services according to the
...decades of research it utilizes all recent achievements in virtualization, distributed computing,
...the problem's reduction. Cloud computing is an emerging model for distributed
...are integrated into one seamless experience. A proven blueprint for highly virtualized
...server virtualization from VMware deployed on HP server blades deliver a compelling
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