Comments on: What’s In A Name? Utility vs. Cloud vs Grid http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/25/whats-in-a-name-utility-vs-cloud-vs-grid/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: alexis richardson http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/25/whats-in-a-name-utility-vs-cloud-vs-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-290 alexis richardson Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:45:02 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/25/whats-in-a-name-utility-vs-cloud-vs-grid/#comment-290 People are definitely using terms like 'cloud' and 'virtualization' without always being clear what they mean. To some extent this is a natural consequence of a rapidly evolving marketplace. I believe the fundamental characteristic of a cloud, versus say a grid, is that it offers a 'retail like experience'. As such, clouds are part of a larger revolution by customers against technologies that cost a lot of money just to set up, before they can even be used. I blogged about this here, with reference to James Governor's list of "15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing" --- <a href="http://elasticserver.blogspot.com/2008/03/all-at-once-i-saw-crowd.html" rel="nofollow">http://elasticserver.blogspot.com/2008/03/all-at-once-i-saw-crowd.html</a> People are definitely using terms like ‘cloud’ and ‘virtualization’ without always being clear what they mean. To some extent this is a natural consequence of a rapidly evolving marketplace.

I believe the fundamental characteristic of a cloud, versus say a grid, is that it offers a ‘retail like experience’. As such, clouds are part of a larger revolution by customers against technologies that cost a lot of money just to set up, before they can even be used.

I blogged about this here, with reference to James Governor’s list of “15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing” — http://elasticserver.blogspot.com/2008/03/all-at-once-i-saw-crowd.html

]]> By: John Willis http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/25/whats-in-a-name-utility-vs-cloud-vs-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-289 John Willis Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:24:10 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/25/whats-in-a-name-utility-vs-cloud-vs-grid/#comment-289 Thanks for including me in your prestigious list. All I am try to do is to put some sanity in anything that is called a cloud. What I am finding is that a lot of vendors, journalists, and analysts are calling everything a cloud with no perspective. What I have recently added a vendor list and I have tried to classify the vendors based on a few categories. <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/mysql/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/" rel="nofollow">http://www.johnmwillis.com/mysql/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/</a> Thanks johnmwillis.com Thanks for including me in your prestigious list. All I am try to do is to put some sanity in anything that is called a cloud. What I am finding is that a lot of vendors, journalists, and analysts are calling everything a cloud with no perspective. What I have recently added a vendor list and I have tried to classify the vendors based on a few categories.

http://www.johnmwillis.com/mysql/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/

Thanks
johnmwillis.com

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