Built For The Cloud vs. Adapting To The Cloud
June 13, 2014
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jon Roskill.
It may just sound like semantics, but there is a real difference between something that was “built for” versus “adapted to.” Would you rather buy a house that was “designed for” energy efficiency or one that was “adapted to” be energy efficient?technology “Built for” describes a software product that engineers designed from the ground up to utilize and incorporate the features of cloud computing technology.
“Adapted to” implies a software product wasn’t specifically designed with cloud computing in mind, but rather a company made its older, legacy solution “compatible “ with the cloud. This is an important distinction for several reasons. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of cloud computing identifies “five essential characteristics“:…
On-demand self-service: A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed, automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider…
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