Comments on Cloud Computing Economics: Cloud Confusion Amongst IT Professionals

Cloud computing is a method to get customers to tu...

2011-08-22T01:10:19.619-04:00

Cloud computing is a method to get customers to turnover corporate data to a company they know nothing about. 5-10 years from now the cloud companies will have gather massive repository of data to analysis and sell to whom ever they please i.e. big government, competitors… 5-10 years cloud computing will be free (the cloud companies will gladly pay you to turn over your data to them for analysis)

It’s also a one stop shop for hackers, kind’a like going to the mall all the companies are under one roof.

But for now All companies are at the learning point and focusing simply on how to interact with the cloud company using SOAP, REST learning new API’s…But in the other hand the cloud company are sorting and categorizing your payload. Crazy stuff
All the dots will start connecting in 5-10 years…enjoy

2010-01-20T07:39:30.076-05:00

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As a software architect who has built and deployed...

2009-08-19T22:56:38.659-04:00

As a software architect who has built and deployed Internet scale (10 million UV a month) web applications both in company-hosted data centers and using infrastructure-as-a-service (Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (Google App Engine) offerings, it's no hoax.

At least in that setting, the ease of deployment and scale is unmatched. I can build in a week what used to take months.

And, for what it's worth, most consumer workloads (which are becoming increasingly dominated by browser use) are not CPU-bound; they are network-bound. The last mile hurts. Even with advancing CPU power, there are still things we have to do server side because the Javascript engines in the browsers can't keep up.

For sure netbooks will be great, but I don't think that Cloud Computing in the sense I'm discussing here is really targeted at the consumer; it's targeted at software development companies. So I'm pretty sure both will have fine niches in the marketplace.

Cloud Computing is a marketing scam like the "...

2009-08-18T00:14:56.197-04:00

Cloud Computing is a marketing scam like the "paperless office". Talk the customers into wanting it and then figure out how to make money off them with it.

We are bombarded with dis-info that netbooks aren't powerful enough for REAL COMPUTING. They are 3 times as powerful as the IBM 3033 mainframe that cost $3,000,000 in 1980 and netbooks have 32 times as much memory. 160 gigabytes of on-line storage in 1980. Who had that? It's just that no one was trying to store movies on their computer in 1980.

We need higher quality information and less BS not cloud computing.

www.netbookation.com/netbkbnch.htm