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Poll: What’s up with the Cloud thing?

by Dwayne Melancon on September 8, 2009 Dwayne Melancon

Just spent a week at VMworld, cloudand the Cloud buzz (hype?) was everywhere. Between VMware and its partners, all trying to out-Cloud each other, you’d think this was the next best thing since Google.

So, my questions are:

  1. How will the current Cloud push be different from the ASP model we saw come & go about 6-8 years ago?
  2. What has changed that will increase the number of people who go from on-premise, self-managed infrastructure to Cloud-based infrastructure?
  3. How aggressively do you see your company moving services and/or infrastructure into the Cloud?

Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments on this post.

Tagged as: cloud computing, trends

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  • http://mpwilson.com/ Mike Wilson

    I’ve seen a remarkable amount of “business critical” uptake of cloud technologies in the last couple years. Not boutique nonsense but real high performance trading system level stuff.

    I hadn’t been following along since I used to snicker about linux dweebs with their home beowulf clusters a decade ago, but it seems like people and organizations have figured out the adoption/support/administration model.

    Looks like it just took a while to seep in to production acceptance from geekworld.

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