The ever so interesting Tim O’Reilly does an interesting analysis on the future of cloud computing (as understood in the context of IaaS), whether it would evolve into an outsize profit business as envisioned by Hugh Mcleod in his post titled “The cloud’s best kept secret”. Some interesting points from the post are mentioned below:
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In the cloud computing Google group, there was this interesting question asked: what cloud services can a small IT firm provide? This firm specializes in consulting, development and management. I replied to this question however I’m posting it on my blog as well.
An IT services firm can offer turnkey solutions involving business modeling, [...]
IDC recently published the findings from a survey on IT cloud services (cloud computing). The survey was conducted on 244 IT executives/CIOs and their colleagues about their companies’ use of, and views about, IT Cloud Services. Summary of top three findings from this survey is mentioned below in two categories:
Benefits:
1) 63.9% find the number one [...]
I mentioned in the article on SaaS offering of ITIL, that the cloud computing or as SaaS matures, more infrastructure software components would be made available in the cloud. For example on demand Message Queuing (MQ) service.
In house MQ software has played an important role in the enterprise application integration world for over a decade. [...]
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of processes for enterprises seeking a service centric approach to managing their IT operations rather than, following a system based approach. The latest release of ITIL is version 3 and uses a slightly different terminology from ITIL v2.
ITILv2 is predominantly adopted in the enterprise while [...]
Amazon announced that it will offer the ability to deploy Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL Server on Amazon EC2. This has multiple implications:
1. Having the ability to run Microsoft on EC2 would accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing especially favoring Amazon EC2.
2. Running MS Windows Server would bring Windows based development [...]
Gnip launched v2.0 yesterday with some enhancements and a pricing model. The pricing model is based on chargeback model as I speculated when I first wrote about them here. For those of you who don’t know about Gnip, Gnip notifies changes to the data that you are interested in, on an endpoint you [...]