5th International Cloud Expo New York
Any new technology adoption happens because of one of the three reasons:
Capability: It allows us to do something which was not feasible earlier
Convenience: It simplifies Cost: It significantly reduces cost of doing
something
What is our expectation from cloud computing? As I had stated earlier, it is
all about cost saving … (1) through elastic capacity and (2) through
economy of scale. So, for any CIO who is interested in moving to cloud, it is
very important to understand what the cost elements are for different cloud
solutions. I am going to look at 3 platforms: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine
and Microsoft Azure. They are sufficiently different from each other and each
of these companies is following a different cloud strategy – so... (more)
Amazon Cloud on Ulitzer
Their economy of scale will be difficult to match.
What about Microsoft - they are constrained by the fact that they have to
defend their desktop business - which will prevent them from following
optimal cloud strategy!
Cloud Computing Service
Service provider with large number of networked computer systems
Allowing you to use a slice of that processing power and s... (more)
Web 2.0 Magazine on Ulitzer
Web 2.0 may not have a clear-cut definition but irrespective of which way you
look at it (there are three different ways of looking at Web 2.0), it is
about the behavior of complex system, it is about collective intelligence and
it is about emergence.
The fundamental principles governing such systems are that the whole is much
more than the sum of its parts – th... (more)
When I drove into the Tata Auditorium at IISc, Bangalore for the Business
Technology Summit – my first reaction was “Oh! So many cars!”. Yes, it
was a very well attended conference.
I have found that taking a statistics of the topics give a good way of
gauging which way the technology wind is blowing. Here is my quick analysis.
There were 6 tracks – SOA, Security, ECM BI, Cloud and Virtual... (more)
(5sahjdcb8k) This post is triggered by John Gannon asking me a question about
“the implication of VMware acquisition of Spring Source?”
VMware: I already have the most popular virtualization software and I will
integrate Spring Source and create the best PaaS offering.
Amazon EC2: I am extending my cloud facility to a virtual private environment
so that you security concerns are taken care.... (more)