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The Rise Of Clouds

By Cloud Researcher at 3 July, 2009, 4:38 am

The concept fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and thus represents an inflection point in the geography of computation and IT service delivery. It tries to replace the traditional ‘desktop-as-a-platform” with “internet-as-a-platform”, which can dynamically provide always on and always available IT services to address a wide range of needs, ranging from scientific research to e-commerce, over the web.

Like all new technologies, they challenge some of our computing wisdom, change our assumptions and brings about a paradigm shift in how computing is provisioned, deployed, and metered.

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Gartner: Will VMware become the next Novell?

By Cloud Researcher at 1 July, 2009, 1:43 pm

While some comments there [including mine] were re-pondering over the Gartner ponder, I just couldn’t help wondering over the session I just gave on Smart Metering the Clouds about the “stupidity” of us people/humans and how we always tend to choose/make the “right” decisions.
History teaches us just one thing: “A distant memory of pain/defeat experienced [...]

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