theregister.co.uk — Fail and You... It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, but they all mean the same s**t: Renting your quickly depreciating physical assets out because your software company is out of ideas for computer programs.
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jcanciAug 26, 2008
catchphrase in puberty.... sounds like a load of horse-s**t to me.
greydonkeyAug 26, 2008
The article is a puerile joke. How it got on the front page I will never know. f**king hell Digg!
morpheus69Aug 26, 2008
Seriously, I work in the tech industry and it's rare to meet a CTO of a large company who really knows technology. The only way you advance to that kind of position is to be good at schmoozing and office politics. So, of course CTOs will go for this kind of slick marketing.Having said that, outsourcing most or all of your computing infrastructure and applications to centralized data centers that are run by professional, experienced organizations actually is a good decision in most cases. If I'm a bank, do I really want to be in the business of building and maintaining data centers, writing applications, etc.? Why not just pay the experts to do it for me?Sure, security is a risk but I'd be surprised if the security risk is that much greater than the risk of internal fraud today.
vidalsasoonAug 26, 2008
wut
peterinjapanAug 27, 2008
I'm the owner of J-List, an anime store based in Japan. When my bandwidth hit $30,000 a year, I moved our image hosting over to Amazon S3. The change isn't complete yet, but so far it's looking like it may cost me $8000 a year for the same bandwidth -- that's pretty awesome. Downside is the outage they had a month ago, which made my images not show up, but we've put in an automatic switchover program that moves my images back to our normal server if and when their service goes down. This is what I called Pretty Awesome.
mscmanAug 28, 2008
Exactly. We use cloud computing internally in our research arm so that developers can get their own environment for testing web portals and such. Just because it's new and doesn't fit his needs doesn't mean its bad...
doesitexplodeFeb 10, 2009
I don't agree with this article directly equating cloud technology to utility computing. They are similar, but at least somewhat different.Check out this article instead:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/Into_the_cloud_a_conversation_with_Russ_Daniels_Part_I_2">http://digg.com/software/Into_the_cloud_a_conversa ...</a>It explains the difference and is really goddamn informative.
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jmeyersonAug 26, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/5_Tactical_Steps_for_Cloud_Computing" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/software/5_Tactical_Steps_for_Clou ...</a>