Cloud Computing: Server Huggers And Henry T Ford’s Faster Horse
October 24, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
Let’s get one thing straight – cloud computing is a fundamental change in the way technology is delivered. It packages together some basic technology innovations (primarily virtualization) and delivers them in new ways. The two best (and simplest) ways to think of cloud computing is to use a couple of acronyms from two friends of mine. The first comes from Dave Nielsen, creator of CloudCamp and posits that to be considered cloud, a service must be OSSM, standing for: On-demand,Self-service, Scalable and Measurable (more here).
The second comes from Joe Weinman, creator of the cloudonomics theory and author of the book of the same name. Weinman posits that cloud should be: Cloud – Common, Location independant, Online, Utility and onDemand. You’ll notice that in both those acronyms, the technology part of cloud is only one part…
The upshot of all of that is that cloud is more about changing business models than it is about changing technologies – that’s the reason that I was pretty dismissive yesterday of a survey that found Amazon Web Service (AWS) fares poorly in a price/performance comparison with other vendors. Well it seems Cloud Spectator, the testing body responsible for yesterday’s survey is nicely playing the field for today they’re behind yet another survey, this time on behalf of old school hosting provider Internap. Today’s survey compared Internap’s bare metal kit with the cloud offerings from Amazon and Rackspace. Unsurprisingly given who paid for this report, the findings indicated that bare metal cloud (ie those that don’t layer virtualization over the top of hardware) deliver better performance than the approach favored by most modern cloud vendors, virtualization…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2013/10/24/server-huggers-and-henry-t-fords-faster-horse/