The thing Private Clouds can do that Public Clouds can’t
I read the post (link in main blog post) with interest, hoping that it would shed further light on the relative merits of private vs public clouds. Unfortunately, the main argument outlined was actually one of business process engineering, and the writer claimed that adopting the Private Cloud would highlight your inefficiencies and help you streamline your processes while the Public Cloud could not do this ...
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Cloud vs Traditional Hosting
About 3 years ago, I posted an article about the different types of hosting available at the time. While most of what was written still holds true today, the emergence of Cloud Computing (Cloud Hosting) adds a new layer of complexity and options. In this revision of the 2006 post I will add a summary of each of the types of hosting - including Cloud - to clarify the terms and help provide a clearer picture of the marketplace.
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What is Cloud Computing?
I was talking to a friend yesterday about this very topic - he asked me what it was - and then I read a post on ZDnet that I thought was going to tell me the answer. Here's the post: What's Cloud Computing and What's Not? However, the post just told me there was a lot of debate about the issue and that a task force was working towards a definitive definition. Not much use, so I thought I would add to the corpus of articles and definitions by publishing my (Emissary's) definition of Cloud Computing.
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Cloud Computing vs Dedicated Servers
No matter what the name, you, the developer, will still be dealing with reliability and accountability. Using someone else's infrastructure for your application will forever be a business risk. So, is Cloud Computing the way forward, or is it too early to tell?
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