IT executives are being asked to increasingly evaluate new cloud-based
services to improve business agility while lowering operating and capital
costs within the enterprise. Yet often very little is known about the
“cloud” itself. How does it work? What new challenges does it present for
the enterprise?
While cloud vendors continue to roll-out new technology to capture the
imagination of application development and IT organizations – one area
continues to remain noticeably cloudy and overlooked – the cloud itself.
The first of the two words in cloud computing is often not well understood.
It’s almost always drawn very minuscule in pictures while dwarfed by the
virtualized server farms providing on-demand computing power. Implying as if
the cloud is secondary and works in a simple way – something goes in one
side of the cloud and then shows up instantaneously on the o... (more)