If there was still any doubt about the real world use cases for cloud computing, the US Federal Government last week published a 38-page report entitled “State of Public Sector Cloud Computing” (link to PDF at CIO.gov). Attributed to the Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, it is stamped with the seal/logo of the CIO Council,...
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There is a perennial debate in cloud computing about whether a failure of one cloud service provider can be more generalized to a ‘failure of cloud computing’. It is an important question because availability is a key decision factor in choosing between private and public cloud, and between public cloud providers.
The most recent example...
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I am getting so sick of the continual bickering over definitions of cloud computing. Even more frustrating is the hype from all the vested interests – vendors and analysts, mostly – trying to define cloud computing in ways that they imagine will best contribute to their own commercial success. And I know that I...
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