Comments on: Smoke-and-mirrors and cloud software http://cloudpundit.com/2009/03/09/smoke-and-mirrors-and-cloud-software/ the business of Internet infrastructure, cloud computing, and data centers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark http://cloudpundit.com/2009/03/09/smoke-and-mirrors-and-cloud-software/#comment-1969 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:50:40 +0000 http://cloudpundit.com/2009/03/09/smoke-and-mirrors-and-cloud-software/#comment-1969 Found your blog on Google and was so glad i did. That was a warming read. I have a small question.Is it OK if i send you an email???…

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]]> By: Kent Langley http://cloudpundit.com/2009/03/09/smoke-and-mirrors-and-cloud-software/#comment-1445 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:14:45 +0000 http://cloudpundit.com/2009/03/09/smoke-and-mirrors-and-cloud-software/#comment-1445 A few months ago I wrote the following definitions and proclaimed that if some service does not posses these features then, in my opinion, it’s not cloud computing.

* Scalability – The ability of a computing system to grow relatively easily in response to increased demand
* Elasticity – The ability of a system to dynamically acquire or release compute resources on-demand
* Highly Available – Systems designed such that the loss of any one component of a system will not result in system failure. No single points of failure (SPOF)

I still feel exactly the same way…

I posted a longer version of this on my own blog (blog.nscaled.com), it was too long to paste here. In summary though, I commented on the combination of Fabric Mgmt and PaaS by some vendors. In further thought, that kind of leads to what seems to already be happening with a merger what what some call PaaS and IaaS. But, there are some road blocks (like proprietary API’s).

Cheers..

-Kent

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