Cloud computing has in many ways become a household name. We hear about applications living in the “cloud” on a regular basis. Cloud computing does offer a lot of benefit to businesses looking to offload the enormous amounts of data they generate and the expensive hardware to maintain that data. However, cloud computing may not be the super solution that everyone seems to be suggesting. Obviously, the cloud provides a lot of benefit to a business. The ability to purchase computing power in units that represent disk storage, CPU cycles and RAM is revolutionary. For decades… Click to view full post.
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Cloud Computing vs. Virtualization
April 23rd, 2010 Leave a comment 1 commentCloud computing and virtualization are both technologies that were developed to maximize the use of computing resources while reducing the cost of those resources. They are also mentioned frequently when discussing high availability and redundancy. While it is not uncommon to hear people discuss them interchangeably; they are very different approaches to solving the problem of maximizing the use of available resources. They differ in many ways and that also leads to some important considerations when selecting between the two. Virtualization: More Servers on the Same Hardware It used to be that if you needed more computing power for… Click to view full post.
Cloud Computing – is it for you?
February 15th, 2010 Leave a comment 2 commentsAndy Moon did a great analysis in this article to explain why Cloud Computing in storage domain is so slow to be adopted by enterprises: Cloud storage adoption slow for businesses. Cloud computing has been a reality now for many years and the term has been used more and more often by IT professionals. Ever increasing business need for speed and mobility makes cloud computing sound like a perfect match, especially with the growing number of cloud providers on the market. I think that the processing power and ability to scale with cloud computing is not being questioned nowadays… … Click to view full post.
