Scale is the Common Abstraction of Cloud Computing
In my experience, for there to be widespread adoption and agreement over a concept, the semantics surrounding that concept must be unique and discrete. If the definition is too broad,…
The Game is Always Changing: A Non-technical Perspective on Cloud Computing
It’s not about what’s different, it’s about getting on board with the changes in the game or get left behind. People say, “What’s so different about Cloud Computing?”, “This is…
Living La Vida Cloud!
If you’ve been watching broadcast television anytime over the past few months you’ve most likely come across the Microsoft “To the Cloud” commercial. Microsoft does their best to bring complex…
Cloud Computing: New Stuff or Legacy Revisited?
There’s a lot of information hitting the bitwaves touting the value of cloud computing and it seems that within the IT industry those that profess positive opinions of an emerging…
If My SaaS Also Exposes an API, Am I Also A PaaS?
Here's a great example where an agreed-upon taxonomy of Cloud Computing terminology would really be helpful. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is fairly-well understood from both a business and delivery model perspective; that…