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Avoiding cloud computing lock-in

October 25, 2010 By 4 Comments
cloud computing virtualization

There is considerable concern among enterprises that by migrating some of their infrastructure or processes to the Cloud, they will experience the dreaded lock-in situation. Selecting a particular vendor cloud platform that is built on proprietary APIs and formats means that enterprises can face a lock-in situation which will make it much harder for them if they, a later stage, want to withdraw from the vendor platform, either because they want to bring the infrastructure/processes back into … [Read more...]

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Hybrid clouds – merge the benefits of private and public clouds

October 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Hybrid clouds

In order to fully leverage the benefits of both public and private cloud computing, it seems that some kind of hybrid cloud computing could be the viable solution many enterprises are seeking. By implementing a hybrid cloud strategy, enterprises perhaps manage to merge the advantages of private and public clouds, and escape the obviousdisadvantages. Let's briefly examine some of the advantages and disadvantages for each cloud type: Public clouds: Although public clouds address many of the … [Read more...]

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Enterprise vs. commodity class data center strategies

October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
DCF 1.0

The virtualized and multi-tenanted data center is at the heart of cloud computing and every cloud-based service. All the applications and services we retrieve or consume in the Cloud, eventually reside in some data center - presumably built according to cloud criteria, i.e. loosely-coupled, shared, virtualized resources, auto-provisioning, auto-scaling, elasticity and so on. The primary difference between traditional corporate data center and cloud computing data center is in scalability and … [Read more...]

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What is a quasi-private cloud?

October 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
private cloud

It's not surprising that interest around private clouds and their implementation inside corporate firewalls is increases as many enterprisesreckon that public clouds are not secure or trustworthy enough for migrating their IT systems and/or data to. VMware, HP and others have been introducing private cloud solutions lately that are intended for enterprises that want to obtain the primary benefits of cloud computing, like auto-provisioning, self-service, cost granularity, breakdown pricing and … [Read more...]

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