The range of solutions coming on the market for cloud architectures is overwhelming. To make sense of it all, a new map is trying to put the entire universe of choices into a single Javascript app. It lays out the solutions being offered, organized by platforms from major vendors like Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM, and [Read More →]
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Wikipedia: Cloud Computing
August 22, 2009 — GusFirst paragraph of Wikipedia’s lengthy article on Cloud Computing…
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the Internet.[1][2] Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them.[3] Cloud computing services often provide common business applications online [Read More →]
SearchCloudComputing: What is cloud computing?
May 21, 2009 — DorothyFrom TechTarget’s dictionary of technical terms…
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that’s often used to represent the Internet in flow [Read More →]
IDC: Defining “Cloud Services” and “Cloud Computing”
September 23, 2008 — DorothyInternational Data Corp.’s research analysts have been following cloud services in their practice. At the analysts’ blog, they summarized some of their findings..
As a company that makes its living analyzing, sizing and forecasting market opportunities, IDC takes market definitions and taxonomies very seriously. We’re pretty good at distinguishing real markets from hypey ones,
well as articulating [Read More →]
InfoWorld: Cloud computing is all the rage.. it’s the phrase du jour.
April 7, 2008 — DorothyIn April 2008, InfoWorld looked into this hot new topic and said it was “at an early stage, with a motley crew of providers large and small delivering a slew of cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage services to spam filtering.”
Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner [Read More →]
