Re: Cloud Computing

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
Qu0ll wrote:
"Roedy Green" <see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uamau4p3uj2sh5qg253ej7pbs8n6uj89j0@xxxxxxxxxx
Is "cloud computing" a meaningless marketing buzzword or is there
something substantial behind it? Sun keeps sending me Vip-commercials
for it (Vip was a fictitious product accidentally and generically
advertised in the Doris Day/Rock Hudson movie Lover Come Back).

I would like to compose an entry in the Java Glossary. What should I
say?

Industry is always looking for new buzzwords. Cloud Computing came out of SOA and SaaS. Though the terms may change the underlying concept of delivering software as a service is a substantial paradigm shift from the traditional model and is here to stay.

So it may be called something else in a few years time but it's worth investing time into learning about it now. I guess the most prominent branded products in this area are Google's App Engine, Amazon's services and Windows Azure.

And it all means nothing if you don't have the bandwidth to use it.
I have a 3Mb/s links and it's painful to try and use it for running most apps.

If you have a slow connection to the internet then hosting apps used
by internal users in the cloud is not good, but hosting apps used
by external users in the cloud will be very good.

Somehow I don't think the bandwidth of my net connection will ever match that of my HDD

Most likely not.

But so what.

The users of your brilliant web app may still find it faster to connect
to Google or Amazon than to your server, if you have a slow connection.

Not if their connection is as slow as mine.

Most web apps run great on a 3 Mbit line.

But obviously if people want to run something over the internet
connection, then they will need sufficient bandwidth for the
purpose.

So, what cloud apps do you think will prosper?

Almost all server apps could be hosted in the cloud.

The cloud concept makes it most interesting for apps
with huge variations in resource requirements.

Arne

In which case I'm already using cloud computing, and have been for years, by having a website. As for huge variations in resource requirements, even I don't have much need for a supercomputer. Let alone Joe Public.

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