Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

Cloud Computing and SaaS – A review of Gartner’s Webinar

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I sat in on a great webinar the other day titled “The Real Truth About Cloud, SaaS and Saving Money Now”.  This was presented by Daryl Plummer of Gartner as part of their Webinar series.

There were a lot of very interesting topics covered.  First and foremost, he provides a clear definition of cloud computing.  Gartner’s definition is “a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’ to external customers using Internet Technologies”.

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Clouds vs. Data Centers

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

It seems as though every company that offers a web based or SaaS product is now claiming that they are offering it in the cloud.  But are they?  Based on what I can tell, it seems like most just have your typical data center.  Sure, they may have great features like multiple mirrored locations in case of outages, backups and all the other bells and whistles that come with both a data center and a cloud, but, are they “in a cloud”?

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