http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/17/what-came-before-the-cloud-and-why-those-failures-matter-now/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/17/what-came-before-the-cloud-and-why-those-failures-matter-now/#comment-65100 thinking sysadmin » Blog Archive » Links, 6/18/2008 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:07:38 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/06/17/what-came-before-the-cloud-and-why-those-failures-matter-now/#comment-65100 [...] Cloud Computing: Is the Cloud There Yet? - A Brief History: A mostly negative look at the prospects for cloud computing. Although the arguments it makes are fairly reasonable, the article appears to presume that cloud computing is an all-or-nothing proposal, not a tool for only some tasks. Also odd - “Many routine tasks which are not processor intensive and time critical are the most likely candidates to be migrated to cloud computing” seems wrong (think Sun’s network.com, or how SmugMug uses EC2). Further, the article seems to ignore that big pharma and financial institutions are the largest users of AWS. Still, all in all, a perspective worth considering. (Originally seen at InsideHPC.com.) [...] [...] Cloud Computing: Is the Cloud There Yet? – A Brief History: A mostly negative look at the prospects for cloud computing. Although the arguments it makes are fairly reasonable, the article appears to presume that cloud computing is an all-or-nothing proposal, not a tool for only some tasks. Also odd – “Many routine tasks which are not processor intensive and time critical are the most likely candidates to be migrated to cloud computing” seems wrong (think Sun’s network.com, or how SmugMug uses EC2). Further, the article seems to ignore that big pharma and financial institutions are the largest users of AWS. Still, all in all, a perspective worth considering. (Originally seen at InsideHPC.com.) [...]

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