Comments on: The future of computing is in the cloud

By: Business

Business — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:08:27 +0000

thank you for the post.
very informative and useful also.
keep going on.

By: PVR

PVR — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

Why is a commercial for a personal enterprise even considered a fit subject for “the Great Debate”.

By: J

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:25:19 +0000

So we come full circle. ‘Cloud’ computing is just the resurrection of ‘Heavy Iron’ except the ‘Iron’ are now stacks of ‘Pizza Boxes’ running virtualization software. “Cloud, smoud”.I can however see companies colocating IT facilities for small and large businesses alike heavilly leveraging virtualization to create virtual data centers. Several different organizations mails systems could inhabit the same email server while being secure oblivious to one another.The only little fly in the ointment? You know it, come on, it’s on the tip of your tongue!Ma’ Bell. Wide Area Networking. If you can get the speed you need, then it’s gonna cost you the salary of an IT executive every year. If you can get it at all.Until gigabit plus WAN is affordable this cloud, or more specifically co-located virtual datacenters, will just be so much mist in the stratosphere. Is that a dragon I see? Now, it’s a gigantic mouse! No.. wait.. it’s a…

By: trevor attridge

trevor attridge — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:08:06 +0000

For most businesses it will end up being a combination of private cloud and public cloud, a blend of complimentary services from each.However businesses need to figure this out and take care, as we all know when two clouds collide you get thunder and storms…..

By: rjs

rjs — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:02:21 +0000

I have a degree and over twenty years under my belt in IT. I don’t care what he says, cloud computing won’t work. And outsourcing is not the answer. Someone above mentioned fad… ugh, yes.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:10:29 +0000

Cloud computing is also subject to abuse of privacy by governments and corrupt government employees. Both Google and Yahoo have caved in to Chinese government demands for information leading to arrest of journalists. The Democrat-controlled federal government, desperate for money, will also snoop in the Cloud for evidence of tax evasion.

By: Baber Khan

Baber Khan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:04:39 +0000

The analogy to electric power is the most overused and irrelevant example used to show the power of cloud computing and reference it against something thats known in the industry as an answer to today’s problems.Electricity is a one-way flow. Utilities generated it, grid delivered it and companies utilized it. Computing is a bi-directional flow. Unique intellectual property and operational business information is generated and then put back in the cloud. There is NO similarity to electricity. When did a piece of capital equipment generate its output and send it back to the power provider for storage?The technical community is short of true innovations and hyping this as a breakthrough.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Cloud computing is really about outsourcing white collar work, mostly to India. The US now has 8400+ banks plus branches, plus thousands of non-bank banks. It is how a third of our GDP is financial sector.

By: mike clark

mike clark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00:09 +0000

To you x and y generation person. Cloud computing is here and will only become bigger and more robust. “you can’t stop progress.” Now we have to figure out how to make the public cloud more virtual private cloud friendly.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:19:12 +0000

A necessary condition for cloud computing to fully succeed is Trusted Computing. Once a TC paradigm is completely insinuated into the computing ecosystem, users will be able to source out the most efficient solution to their computing need. Without TC, users will continue to be held hostage to a very few service providers and their limited computing models. TC is rapidly developing and is dependant upon acceptance of the TPM chips contained in over 300 million enterprise pc’s. Just as banks today provide credit to individuals they trust, the service providers of the cloud will one day provide computing services to all users they trust.