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March 12 Chris Samson's Day2 Reflection"Dan Golding - VP, Tier 1 Research" Cloud and the Hosting Ecosystem The definition of cloud computing is real-time computing on a public network that is easily provisioned, within an hour MAXIMUM, and is easily scaled up and down. It is also defined by a granular billing model, such as billing per minute, has easy management solutions with constant availability, and tied to a clear Service Level Agreement.
The cloud applications include remote desktop on top of the core infrastructure layer, such as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and IaaS (Infrastructure).
So why get into the cloud space?
Clear opportunities for new computing models are not dominated by the "big guys" such as:
Tier 1 did a survey and discovered that:
The top internet cloud applications today are:
In 2012 they will be
In addition, another Tier 1 Research poll of hosting customers revealed that the top needs of customers to use Cloud computing is flexibility and low cost. However, to the contrary, top inhibitors of cloud computing adoption were perceived as security and isolation.
-Chris Samson, senior hosting technology specialist, Microsoft
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