A Cloud By Any Other Name
- Date: 27 May 2010
- Author: broyer
- Category: Cloud Computing, News
How do industry insiders (e.g. prominent analysts, organizations) define cloud computing?
Forrester Research:
“A standardized IT capability (services, software, or infrastructure) delivered via Internet technologies in a pay-per-use, self-service way.”
IDC:
“Cloud Computing is an emerging IT development, deployment and delivery model, enabling real-time delivery of products, services and solutions over the Internet (i.e., enabling cloud services)”
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA):
“A new business model wrapped around new technologies such as server virtualization that take advantage of economies of scale and multi-tenancy to reduce the cost of using information technology resources.”
Here’s what some other experts are calling it…
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