My Introduction With Cloud Computing
Till today, I wasn’t much into the technicalities of cloud computing. It flip-flopped several times through my eyes but I never bothered to investigate in details. The recent write up of Dion Hinchcliffe, where he talks about Cloud Computing and Open Source face off, dragged my attention to get deep into this. The simple explanation comes from Wikipedia. It treats cloud computing as a combination of three different services.
Cloud Computing = IaaS + PaaS + SaaS
*IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
*PaaS – Platform as a Service
*SaaS – Software as a Service
Going further gives us much more interesting facts. When the world was busy getting over the high CapEx + OpEx and striving to derive a need based expenditure module, a Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management Ramnath Chellappa came and gave the theory of Cloud Computing. He defines it as “a computing paradigm where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale rather than technical limits”. It solves the problem of high CapEx and OpEx. It also gives organizations a need based expenditure model. Looks simple but it isn’t that easy.
Some biggies of IT industry talk about Cloud Computing in their own words here. They make it look simple though for me the implementation par t is more interesting to watch. I browsed little further and got few white papers and few books on this. Next task for me would be looking into these extensive details.
When I look at adaptation and acceptability, it looks gloomy. IBM is already working towards its solution for Cloud Computing. They are now targeting software development and testing sector as well. Dave Greenfield predicts a growth in could computing security in 2009.These talks are definitely creating a favorable environment.
I will continue to gather and share more information on this.
I believe that cloud computing from a business perspective is definitely the future of computing. It will provide many benefits to businesses, but in the long-run, they will likely have to develop in-house “mini” clouds, as most businesses will be uncomfortable leaving their private data sitting on a server somewhere on the web.
There is another service in the cloud area which is Testing as a service. Its a new concept and will take a while before people accept this as a viable proposition.
look at http://cloudtesting.com/ for more info.
Wow, this blog is definately getting bookmarked. Great Info all over the place.
In our company, (www.insyncinfo.com), we have started taking steps towards cloud computing and we actually market our product as a PAAS and SAAS compliant product. Infrastructure, implementation and deployment plays the major role here. Though our product can operate in PAAS and SAAS mode, but for cloud computing, still the major concerns are reliable Network connectivity and suitable hardware. Hardware can still be taken care of. But we spend a lot of time taking care of situations to make it independent of network connectivity. So that things can work offline and they can then be posted back to server when connectivity is established. Still waiting for the day when we don’t have to worry about reliability of network connectivity.
I believe that cloud computing from a business perspective is definitely the future of computing. It will provide many benefits to businesses, but in the long-run, they will likely have to develop in-house “mini” clouds, as most businesses will be uncomfortable leaving their private data sitting on a server somewhere on the web.
In our company, (www.insyncinfo.com), we have started taking steps towards cloud computing and we actually market our product as a PAAS and SAAS compliant product. Infrastructure, implementation and deployment plays the major role here. Though our product can operate in PAAS and SAAS mode, but for cloud computing, still the major concerns are reliable Network connectivity and suitable hardware. Hardware can still be taken care of. But we spend a lot of time taking care of situations to make it independent of network connectivity. So that things can work offline and they can then be posted back to server when connectivity is established. Still waiting for the day when we don’t have to worry about reliability of network connectivity.
I believe that cloud computing from a business perspective is definitely the future of computing. It will provide many benefits to businesses, but in the long-run, they will likely have to develop in-house “mini” clouds, as most businesses will be uncomfortable leaving their private data sitting on a server somewhere on the web.
There is another service in the cloud area which is Testing as a service. Its a new concept and will take a while before people accept this as a viable proposition.
look at http://cloudtesting.com/ for more info.