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By: How The Cloud is Changing IT Services « Control Group Blog

How The Cloud is Changing IT Services « Control Group Blog — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:24:39 +0000

[...] event with Google and Mozy that we have dubbed “CloudSourcing”, taking a note from Gartner and tweaking it a [...]

By: Tom Bittman

Tom Bittman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:52:15 +0000

Deep – agree, but the analogy is closer to the server market than the electricity production and distribution market. Early servers – very proprietary, very hard to “leave” – but as competition moved from lock-in to richness of offerings, new workloads tended to be put elsewhere. In the cloud, standards and openness (as always) will be driven by the little guys – the medium-sized service providers who work together to compete with the big guys. It’s never a perfectly competitive world, but the tendency will be in that direction, and I believe the speed of the shift will be lightning-fast compared to the electricity production market, and much faster than the server market. Near-term, the question won’t be moving terabytes of data, it will be choosing to source a new and separate app with a provider that enables choice/competition/exit. Let’s talk in five years!

By: Deep Bhattacharjee

Deep Bhattacharjee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:37:14 +0000

Do you think it will be easy to lug terabytes of data around from one cloud provider to another? Lets say a company now has its data in Amazon’s simpleDB format. How are you going to move that data to some other cloud for computation without converting the data to a format that the other cloud provider understands. What you say may happen if the protocols and data formats are standardized across various cloud providers. That will not happen as the early leaders would like to keep their market share. I am not sure how long it took before all electric utility companies supplied power at 60 Hz. Besides the electric grid is a bit different from the internet.

By: Cloud Computing for Early Stage IT « Early Stage IT Blog

Cloud Computing for Early Stage IT « Early Stage IT Blog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:00:28 +0000

[...] to negotiate and manage contracts. According to Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, one of the major unrecognized challenges of cloud computing will be how IT departments will manage the [...]