.Cloud Computing- General Updates

Razorfish Unveils Latest Annual Technology Report Showcasing ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) "The first two editions of the Razorfish 5 focused on how cloud computing was impacting enterprises," said Ray Velez, global chief technology officer at Razorfish ... See all stories on this topic »

Frost & Sullivan: Wider Deployment of Cloud Computing Makes a ... MarketWatch (press release) The market is expected to recover fully by 2015, mainly due to governments' emphasis on cloud computing, green technology and smart grids. New analysis ... See all stories on this topic »

Cloud Computing World Forum Wraps Up in London Conference Hound Editorial news, opinion & coverage on conference industry and culture. For attendees, speakers, exhibitors, event organizers and meeting planners of ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon spruces up cloud support options GigaOM Cloud Computing News ... Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises · Forecasting the future cloud computing market · Infrastructure Q4: Big data ... See all stories on this topic »

HP and SAP: What we need is a MASHED UP cloud InformationWeek CCWF2012 The next step in cloud computing is to mash up all the different clouds hanging about with traditional IT systems to give one big mixed-up cloud, SAP ... See all stories on this topic »

Is ROI the Right Measure of Cloud Success? Forbes However, with cloud computing, stipulating that a hard-money ROI will be achieved, ... But if ROI isn't the best measure for cloud computing success, "What is? See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Innovation in the forecast at 'Cloud' conference CNET An important challenge for the future of enterprise cloud computing is balancing speed and agility with security, audit, and data controls -- all themes this week at ... See all stories on this topic »

Five ways Cloud computing is like open source CIO Magazine Cloud computing delivers the same kind of easy access and provides the same kind of benefits vis-a-vis the existing modus operandi. In many organizations, it ... See all stories on this topic »

The Enterprise Cloud: Are We There Yet? NetworkComputing.com Backup & Recovery · Cloud Computing · Cloud Storage · Data Center · Data ... of all the latest innovations-including cloud computing, virtualization, security, ... See all stories on this topic »

Salesforce: Concept of Private Cloud is Fundamentally Flawed CIO Speaking at the Cloud Computing World forum in London today, JP Rangaswami said that cloud provides the scalability and flexibility that organisations need to ... See all stories on this topic »

Cloud Computing: Why Now?

The term “cloud computing” is of recent origin. It entered Wikipedia on 3rd March 2007. But it was in making for quiet some time. Although it has been mentioned for just over three years (2006) in context of services or other computing resources that can be rented over a network, cloud computing represents a culmination point in a series of developments which started some time back.

It has happened many times in human history. The idea comes first and it is realized a long time after that. Some times the realization may happen many decades later. For instance, the idea of geostationary satellite was proposed by Arthur Clark way back in 1945 but it took another twenty years when Syncom 2 was launched in 1963

Similarly cloud computing was in the making for many decades. The of vision of cloud computing was available since late 1960’s as seen below

"If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday may be organized as a public utility just as the telephone is a public utility….. The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry."
- John McCarthy, MIT Centennial in 1961.

It was on 24th August, 2006, Amazon made the test version of Elastic computing cloud (EC2) public (Business Week 2006). Although the term “cloud computing “ was not in use at that time, this offer from Amazon had all the features which we associate with cloud computing today. So Amazon may be called the first cloud service vendor

Cloud Computing : Why do we need it ?

Cloud computing is a compelling paradigm. Its mission is to make computing available on retail basis. Let me illustrate with an example. Just few years back, commodities such as coconut oil or shampoo were available only in relatively small quantities such as 250mg, or 100gm. It made sense for companies and also a large population to buy them in these quantities. However there are occasions where even these quantities become large. For instance, a traveler in different town for a day may need both coconut oil and shampoo in such a small quantities for that day’s consumption that buying a 250mg pack is not acceptable. This is where the idea of selling in small “sachet” became an interesting proposition. Once its practical importance is realized today every consumer product or service is available in “sachets”. The idea behind sachet is simple: Convenience for buyer and profitable for business. Sell or buy in quantities of you choice, at your location, and affordable prices. Mobile companies today use retail models where recharging is possible in quantities as small as few rupees. Now imagine if this is also possible in computing.

• Why do I buy a computer when I use it for only few hours a week?
• Why do I buy a printer when I need printing occasionally?

The answer is yes. And the name of model which is expected make computing available on retail basis is called cloud computing. Cloud computing intends to make the Internet the ultimate home of all computing resources- storage, computations, applications and allow end user (both individuals and business) to avail these resources in quantities of her choice, location of their preferences, for duration of their liking. In other world web become the provision store for all your computing needs. A business model built on this paradigm offers these resources as services - either on pay per use basis or rental basis