Comments on: Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing? http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Four Myths About Cloud Computing http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Four Myths About Cloud Computing Sat, 09 May 2009 02:05:03 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/?p=43#comment-207 [...] are many fragmented markets that have good enough scale for smaller providers, and innovation makes provider agility a critical offsetter to size. We’re not going to have a handful of megaproviders, we’re going [...] [...] are many fragmented markets that have good enough scale for smaller providers, and innovation makes provider agility a critical offsetter to size. We’re not going to have a handful of megaproviders, we’re going [...]

]]> By: Niraj J http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Niraj J Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:53:13 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/?p=43#comment-42 Tom , your post kinda assumes that googles wants to be a provider (Seller) in the cloud computing space(defined by one of the layers in SaaS , PaaS , HaaS) essentially an arms supplier to businessness. Google is really a using the cloud computing paradigm as an enabler to essentially own the battlefield where businesses fight as compared to being an arms supplier. It will go bottom up - and focus on being the IT platform for small business as a whole to run their business. refer link here for more details http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/10/google-microsoft-and-amazon-ibm.html Tom , your post kinda assumes that googles wants to be a provider (Seller) in the cloud computing space(defined by one of the layers in SaaS , PaaS , HaaS) essentially an arms supplier to businessness.

Google is really a using the cloud computing paradigm as an enabler to essentially own the battlefield where businesses fight as compared to being an arms supplier. It will go bottom up – and focus on being the IT platform for small business as a whole to run their business.

refer link here for more details
http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/10/google-microsoft-and-amazon-ibm.html

]]> By: The Evolution of the Cloud Computing Market http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-33 The Evolution of the Cloud Computing Market Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:57:57 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/?p=43#comment-33 [...] on the structure of the cloud computing market, (Can A Cloud Computing Provider Be Too Massive?, Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing?, Partly or Mostly Cloudy?) and I’m getting more and more comfortable talking about three major [...] [...] on the structure of the cloud computing market, (Can A Cloud Computing Provider Be Too Massive?, Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing?, Partly or Mostly Cloudy?) and I’m getting more and more comfortable talking about three major [...]

]]> By: Partly or Mostly Cloudy? http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Partly or Mostly Cloudy? Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:53:32 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/?p=43#comment-17 [...] PrenticeNikos DrakosEric GoodnessAndreas BittererMark RaskinoRay ValdesTom Murphy ← Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing? Virtualization, Clouds, and John Chambers [...] [...] PrenticeNikos DrakosEric GoodnessAndreas BittererMark RaskinoRay ValdesTom Murphy ← Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing? Virtualization, Clouds, and John Chambers [...]

]]> By: lewis shepherd http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/2008/09/26/is-google-the-mainframe-of-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-6 lewis shepherd Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:30:56 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/?p=43#comment-6 Interesting thoughts. On your concluding questions, Well it turns out we (Microsoft) are doing both - partly because we believe we can do a better job of providing specialized orchestrations of Software + Services on a grand scale from datacenters of our own design and specs - because the datacenter is in some ways becoming a grid OS itself, and we think we know something about how to do OS's. In fact, we're testing that out on Amazon's EC2 right now (I wrote about it yesterday at ShepherdsPi.com) with Windows Server there... not sure why they were kind enough to let us "beta" our own plans on their platform but hey we're cool with it! So we're going to wind up doing both routes you mention. Interesting thoughts. On your concluding questions, Well it turns out we (Microsoft) are doing both – partly because we believe we can do a better job of providing specialized orchestrations of Software + Services on a grand scale from datacenters of our own design and specs – because the datacenter is in some ways becoming a grid OS itself, and we think we know something about how to do OS’s. In fact, we’re testing that out on Amazon’s EC2 right now (I wrote about it yesterday at ShepherdsPi.com) with Windows Server there… not sure why they were kind enough to let us “beta” our own plans on their platform but hey we’re cool with it! So we’re going to wind up doing both routes you mention.

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