The Goldman Sachs SaaS scorecard
The past couple weeks I have been peering over reams and reams of investment analysis regarding 'cloud computing'. It has…
Comparing the Cost Continued…
The next step was to select our benchmarks and calculate their costs. We extracted two workloads that are common to…
HPC is dead, long live HPC!
With the advent of web scale computing, genetics, and data mining for business intelligence the need for computer performance is…
SaaS business development
There is a great group discussion regarding cloud computing at Google Groups. In one thread titled Brutal reality of SaaS...…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Comparing Costs of Different Cloud Computing Providers
The past month we have been trying to quantify the cost of moving some of our workloads into the cloud.…
Windows Server on Amazon EC2
As soon as I finished yesterday's blog entry, I became aware of a posting by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where…
IT as a Business: or IaaB
Whereas SaaS is predominantly a Business Process Outsourcing trend, Cloud Computing is predominantly an IT operation outsourcing trend. IBM and…
Federated Clouds
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt defines cloud computing as the convergence of information. The cloud aggregates raw data, organizes the data…
Open Source and free data
Two articles that are just wonderfully expansive...http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtmlhttp://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30283I came across these articles researching and thinking about SaaS and PaaS and what…
