Cloud Computing: 5 Things You May Not Know

Grazed from Nimbix. Author: Leo Reiter.

Cloud computing is all about people quietly “spinning up” instances in some giant network on the Internet to solve all problems, right? Guess again!

Cloud Computing is Not New!

While many would argue the modern incarnation of cloud computing is only a few years old, there’s no denying that the conceptual and practical underpinnings date back at least to the early 1960’s. Things we take for granted today as “inherent” in cloud computing, such as resource pooling (first implemented as time sharing), measured service, and rapid elasticity are decades old. To say this is not new is a massive understatement – cloud computing is actually ancient by modern standards…

There’s no Such Thing as “The Cloud”

We’ve all seen advertising campaigns shouting slogans like to the Cloud!”, leading us to believe in some singular omnipotent information and processing system in the sky. Even if we limit our view to just public cloud, this is far from true. There’s the Google cloud, the Microsoft cloud, the Salesforce.com cloud, and let’s not forget the Amazon cloud. Yes, there’s the Nimbix cloud too for when you need High Performance Computing as a service!…

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