Comments on: The Blind Men and the Cloud http://cloudpul.se/posts/the-blind-men-and-cloud Research, advisory and consulting services for cloud computing and big data Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:59:14 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Recap: Cloud Computing for Government – Featuring FedEx http://cloudpul.se/posts/the-blind-men-and-cloud#comment-33 Recap: Cloud Computing for Government – Featuring FedEx Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:01:40 +0000 #comment-33 [...] To a server-side guy like myself, pushing desktop apps into the cloud is sometimes not quite as interesting as all the datacenter, application-tier and middleware magic that it takes to make that happen, but to end-user organizations the shift away from desktop applications and to web-delivered apps can provide tremendous economic value. It was a good reminder to be conscious of the many perspectives we bring to cloud. [...] [...] To a server-side guy like myself, pushing desktop apps into the cloud is sometimes not quite as interesting as all the datacenter, application-tier and middleware magic that it takes to make that happen, but to end-user organizations the shift away from desktop applications and to web-delivered apps can provide tremendous economic value. It was a good reminder to be conscious of the many perspectives we bring to cloud. [...]

]]> By: Sam J http://cloudpul.se/posts/the-blind-men-and-cloud#comment-6 Sam J Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-6 Hi Sam, I've spent a good part of the last month overhauling Wikipedia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing">cloud computing</a> article and have ended up essentially rewriting it from scratch. You may well have seen that there are many similarities between it and your post (and also with my earlier <a href="http://samj.net/2008/07/cloud-and-cloud-computing-consensus.html">The Cloud and Cloud Computing consensus definition?</a> post) so it seems that we're definitely on the same page... hopefully others will realise there's little point trying to align cloud with their preferred technology and accept that there's no harm done in having a broad definition (rather the opposite could see it pigeon-holed as grid was with high performance computing tasks). Nice work with the poem by the way... Sam Hi Sam,

I’ve spent a good part of the last month overhauling Wikipedia’s cloud computing article and have ended up essentially rewriting it from scratch. You may well have seen that there are many similarities between it and your post (and also with my earlier The Cloud and Cloud Computing consensus definition? post) so it seems that we’re definitely on the same page… hopefully others will realise there’s little point trying to align cloud with their preferred technology and accept that there’s no harm done in having a broad definition (rather the opposite could see it pigeon-holed as grid was with high performance computing tasks).

Nice work with the poem by the way…

Sam

]]> By: Pjkerpan http://cloudpul.se/posts/the-blind-men-and-cloud#comment-7 Pjkerpan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-7 Agree with your convergence point. My take is that the way applications are assembled, deployed and managed is being completely reshaped and in the process the data center is getting slammed by the convergence of 4 key trends: virtualization, open source, open standards and loosely coupled architectures. Agree with your convergence point. My take is that the way applications are assembled, deployed and managed is being completely reshaped and in the process the data center is getting slammed by the convergence of 4 key trends: virtualization, open source, open standards and loosely coupled architectures.

]]> By: Ajay http://cloudpul.se/posts/the-blind-men-and-cloud#comment-8 Ajay Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-8 This is a great example of simplifying the definition so even alay man can understand it. Great Job! You should post it in wikipedia as well !!! Ajay www.decisionstats.com This is a great example of simplifying the definition so even alay man can understand it. Great Job! You should post it in wikipedia as well !!!

Ajay
http://www.decisionstats.com

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