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By Brian Foley on July 14, 2011
VMWare recently stepped out with a new advancement in their infrastructure – vSphere 5.0. VMware vSphere 5.0 provides major enhancements to the entire cloud and infrastructure stack. VMware vSphere 5.0 supports “virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual [...]
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By Mike Klein on June 22, 2011
I recently gave a talk on the key trends in cloud computing and to set the stage, I was asked to describe the spectrum of cloud computing options from private cloud computing to public cloud hosting. Here is a snapshot of one slide I used to describe this spectrum of cloud computing. On one end [...]
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By Mike Klein on June 17, 2011
As we round the bend half way through 2011 (the year of cloud computing), we’re seeing some interesting trends emerge in cloud computing. Here are 6 key trends in cloud computing that I’ll be discussing at our Cloud Computing Seminar next week. More Confusion (Not Less) About What Cloud Computing Represents – We expected the [...]
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By Mike Klein on June 8, 2011
In previous blogs I wrote about the benefits of private cloud computing and the benefits of public cloud computing based on the unique models of each. Sitting between secure, dedicated private cloud computing and open, low cost public cloud hosting is a secure, shared cloud middle ground we call managed cloud hosting. Public cloud hosting [...]
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By Mike Klein on April 28, 2011
Cloud Computing is moving into 3 separate distinct directions: Public Cloud Computing – like Amazon’s EC2 and Rackspace, designed to provide the lowest cost shared computing service with a utility delivery model where you can pay for services by the hour. Private Cloud Computing – the opposite end of the spectrum where the entire cloud [...]
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By Mike Klein on February 11, 2011
There are a number of public cloud options available. Some like Amazon’s EC2 are basic cloud servers designed to provide the lowest cost computing services for non-critical applications like web or development servers. Others are designed to deliver the high availability and security that enterprises require in their private clouds. The later, we call “Managed Cloud Hosting”.
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By Yan Ness on December 3, 2010
How I found out I wanted “Predictably Priced Elastic Computing” We have a really important web application that gets a fairly unpredictable flow of traffic from multiple sources including users. I wanted to know what it would cost to host this application “in the cloud.” I thought it would be really easy to buy a [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon ec3, elastic computing, microsoft azure, private cloud, Public Cloud, virtualization |
By Mike Klein on September 27, 2010
“Cloud computing” is still used to mean a lot of things to a lot of people. When it comes to slicing up the cloud taxonomy a little further, there’s still quite a bit of confusion between the public cloud and private cloud computing.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Tech News, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, private cloud servers, Public Cloud, public cloud versus private cloud |
By Mike Klein on August 25, 2010
According to Tom Bittman, vice president at Gartner, IT managers are more concerned with security and privacy than they are with the next three public cloud problems combined. In a separate poll on public cloud computing versus private cloud computing, 75% of IT managers said that they will be deploying a private cloud strategy by [...]
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By Bill Ryan on August 24, 2010
In the 5/3/10 InformationWeek article “Microsoft’s Cloud Plan: What’s In It For You?” by Chris Murphy, he says that Microsoft is all in. The article suggests they are actually trying to help people do what they really will need to do for the modern time. I guess if you are a complete Microsoft shop there [...]
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