Mike Brittain is the engineering architect at CafeMom. He has over a decade of experience in LAMP development, and has become involved in cloud computing and mobile phone applications over the last two years. His other projects include One tsp., a recipe management site, and planning his next big ski trip.
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There are a variety of notions to how cloud computing is defined. I tend to
think that what this really boils down to is the ability to procure hardware
or services that you wouldn’t normally have access to in a physical sense.
Rather than buying 20 new servers, you can spin them up on-demand, and also
dump them whenever you want. It’s the “utility” or “pay-as-you-go”
model.
I don’t see any difference between spinning up one server to run some
prototypes, or spinning up 100 to crunch through a huge data set. People seem
to be getting caught up in the notion that unless you are doing some sort of
parallel processing with lots of nodes, you aren’t doing “cloud
computing”. I disagree.
I also don’t believe that virtualization is necessarily the same as ... (more)
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