Cloud Computing & Scaling Web Apps

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• #4: KEY SOUNDBITE: “Just like the landline phone or the power socket on \nthe wall, Cloud Computing is using the same model for IT—inexpensive, pay as \nyou go, operates on a base infrastructure and just works.”\n
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• #6: KEY SOUNDBITE: “Just like the landline phone or the power socket on \nthe wall, Cloud Computing is using the same model for IT—inexpensive, pay as \nyou go, operates on a base infrastructure and just works.”\n
• #7: Historically, industry shifts are driven by new needs and new economics\nWe are in this shift right now …a new era in IT that finally addresses complexity rather than adding it. \n
• #8: Key Talking Points: We see 3 different basic types of cloud computing today. \n\nApplication or Information are the best known, highly visible as consumer web sites and in general are focused on the delivery of information.\n\nPros: Usually very inexpensive to use. In case of commercial centered solutions many are driven by ad revenues.\n\nCons: Not customizable. Limited ability to integrate with internal systems and limited application coverage for business purposes.\n\nKey Talking Points: Second type of cloud computing is least well known and is focused on delivering software development environments and runtimes as a service. A consumer of such a service would write an application using the using the service and then make use of the supplied runtime environment for that application. \n\nPros: Facilitates rapid development\n\nCons:Not compatible with existing applications thus creating need to rewrite applications before they can make use of such service\n\nFinally, the 3rd type of cloud computing is focused on providing the most generalizable solution and that is basic infrastructure as a service. These solutions provide to the consumer storage, networking and computing capacity as a service, sometimes in very high granularities of billing such as hourly.\n\nA vast majority of these solutions are based on virtualization.\n
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• #18: But the decision for enterprises on how far to leverage computing platforms in the cloud will be much more complicated. The economics will increasingly make more sense to run business applications on these new platforms now that major competition has emerged in the PaaS marketplace that will put major downward pressure on already strikingly low costs to operate. But the issues around governance, security, privacy, and control will be hard to overcome. Make no mistake however, these platforms offer not only major cost savings but non-trivial productivity boosts as they competitively strive to be the cheapest and lowest barrier place online to run your business applications and engage your employees, customers, and partners.\n
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