Computing

In part 1 of this post I talked about emerging cloud technologies, and how one management technology built for the cloud paradigm is at play in bringing cloud-like capabilities to your infrastructure. Pressing on with this theme, one more example helps paint the picture of what cloud really is, and why much of the baggage we get mired in (the hoopla about standardization) should be tossed out with the bathwater.

...what Port25 is to Open Source.

I agree, the cloud is vague, but we're talking about a set of technologies that you need to understand. What's makes a cloud? It's a matter of what you're enabling a set of compute and storage services to do for some set of users.

Sounds like a big win for IBM's Blue Cloud. 6 months since announcement bears fruit on the cloud computing front... But what does Cloud Computing mean for the enterprise? I think it suggests good things to come, namely easier infrastructure management.