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Cloud Computing. Edison CTO Executive Meeting, 2009 Scott Fraser, CTO/Co-Founder Portico Systems. What is it?. From Wikipedia :
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Cloud Computing Edison CTO Executive Meeting, 2009 Scott Fraser, CTO/Co-Founder Portico Systems
What is it? From Wikipedia: Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them.
What’s out there? Amazon EC2 and related services Google App Engine Sun’s offering Microsfoft’s Azure IBM??? Value-added services riding on the above Virtualized Hosting Providers, such as Xtium On-demand Platforms such as EngineYard’s Solo What else?
Discussion How do the commercial offerings differentiate? Where does it make sense? Infrastructure as an API Cloudtools