What is Cloud Computing
At the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O’Reilly, Dan Farber, Matt Mullenweg, Jay Cross, Brian Solis, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmor, Jeremy Tanner, Maggie Fox, Tom McGovern, Sam Lawrence, Stowe Boyd, David Tebbutt, Dave McClure, Chris Carfi, Vamshi Krishna and Rod Boothby were asked the same question: “What is Cloud Computing?”.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:14 am
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January 14th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Most of the interviewed talks about Clouds as a simplification of the distribute app life. I agree with this vision but if you play a little bit with these tools you will see that installation and configuration issues remain. My personal opinion is that, at the moment, cloud represents a set of accepted technologies that act as a “common language” between the cloud vendor and its customers. Thus allowing the possibility to outsource the cost of the maintenance of the hardware and part of the software.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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October 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
could computing is just like normal service in our daily life, such as providing clean water, electronity,and fuel etc.
In computing world, storage and computing resource also can be provided by could computing service.
Do you agree ?
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:11 am
wat is cloud computing?wat is d use of it n wat is d diff bwt cloud computing and internet?wat is d technical process behind cloud computing?wat r d main advantage n disadvatage ?in wat way cloud computing is useful compared to other?want to know the brief explanation abt al these?
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:44 pm
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is not a brand new concept, just a new term. It is kind of like running a virtualization system like a thin client. In a thin client / server situation the desktop aka client sends a request to the server to acquire the operating system. All of the processing is done on the server and the output for the user is displayed on the clients screen.
Cloud computing works in my understanding works very much in the same way. In a software as a service environment the application delivers a user interface to the desktop. For example, when a user logs in to a web based email service and wishes to compose a new message they see a rich text editor. This rich text editor is kind of a virtual application. Instead of having to install an email client or office suite on the machine itself, the applications interface is delivered through a web browser, as is the case with web based email service.
Another example I can give is a service I use, dotnetnuke. I have hand coded websites in the past and used wsiwyg editors installed on my computer, which I still do for the most part. My webhosting provider offers installable applications on their hosting packages. I choose dot net nuke for one of my websites just to see what it could do for me. After getting used to the user interface I quickly discovered that I could add content via the built in modules, drag and drop, and even use custom html if I wanted to. The controls are on my browser and the actions take place in a data center elsewhere.
Some other major software companies deliver entire office suites via a browser interface but I never experimented with these services yet. This could be a way for some companies to cut down on overhead within their IT Departments. This could cause a shift in duties for IT Professionals who install application software on end user devices.
In a nutshell; All the end user would require is a terminal to load an OS and a browser. The IT department would require a server to deliver the OS and browser to the terminal. And the server would require a reliable link to the cloud aka internet. I understand why a company would want a private cloud. The processing is done on a server within the LAN and in the event of something going wrong, the admin team could respond quickly. I also see possible security issues with relying on “the cloud” for mission critical applications. But for smaller companies who don’t need their own email server on site this would be a way to go. Also the idea of having an online office suite subscription could save some bucks too.
July 4th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
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