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Cloud Computing – What’s your strategy?

What is Cloud Computing ?

First off, It’s important to understand that cloud computing is fundamentally about resources:

  • Structured and Unstructured Storage (kind of a hybrid of what you may think of as “RAM” or “disk”
  • Compute power (similar to processor or CPU power)

Paradigm Shift

Over the last 10-15 years, there has been a large paradigm shift in the models that we use for accessing these two fundamentals resources. This have been driven largely by the growth of available bandwidth

Model Resources Locality Power per Device Connectivity Model Compute Model Bandwidth Requirement
Mainframe Local Large None Centralized None
PC Local Small None Centralized None
Networked PC Shared Local Small PC-PC Distributed Small
Client-Server Mostly centralized, On Network Specialized PC-Server (=Network) Hybrid Small
Internet Distributed, Off Network Specialized Network-Network Distributed Medium
Peer to Peer Distributed at the fragment level Aggregated Small PC-VirtualNetwork-PC Distributed Medium
Cloud Fundamentally transparent as to location Little to N/A Network-Cloud Centralized Large

Cloud Services

I will follow this up with posts about each service, but I wanted to list a few here:

Value of “The Cloud to Businesses

Risk Mitigation

  • Downtime: Mythical “100% Uptime”
  • Data Loss: Data Replication
  • Server Failure: Redundancy
  • Natural Disaster: Geographical Distribution
  • Scalability: On Demand Resources, Available in small increments

Entrance – Cloud Computing Services – Cloud Readiness Assessment: Contact Us!

Cloud Strategy: Contact Us!

“Port my app” to Cloud – rewrite apps to leverage cloud resources

  • This may be moving your database into the cloud
  • Or very “processor intense” loads to the cloud
  • Or the whole Application!

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