Comments on: Compelling Cases for Clouds

By: Time To Do The Math On Cloud Computing « JCC.COM

Time To Do The Math On Cloud Computing « JCC.COM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:10:45 +0000

[...] practice, there are a number of reasons to leverage the cloud. One is agility: Resources and services that are immediately available for [...]

By: Chris Altman

Chris Altman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:28:31 +0000

A piece of the cloud debate that gets overlooked is the benefit small business can gain from online services.

Cloud applications can backfill expertise a small business may not have because of personnel constraints. For example, our cloud product Perq — http://www.perqworks.com — helps define and manage employee leave time. Some small businesses do not have human resource people, but do have employees taking vacation and sick days off. Using our product delivers all of the benefits this article describes while providing small businesses with HR expertise bundled into a tool that is easy to start using.

Perq is just an example of how Cloud computing lowers the barrier of entry for small businesses to benefit from tools that have historically been too expensive to purchase. The cloud debate should include the non-technology aspects that are created when more people are able to access lower cost services.

By: Towerstream Blog » Blog Archive » Going Green with the Cloud

Towerstream Blog » Blog Archive » Going Green with the Cloud — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:04:27 +0000

[...] Weinman from GigaOM recently wrote a great article on cloud computing that makes some great points for businesses to consider called “Compelling [...]

By: sneha

sneha — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:18:10 +0000

The problem with the folks like Google & Yahoo is that they have created many tools which have been loosely coupled. The challenge with such a solution is that the the information gets locked into multiple silos. With Google Wave they are trying to integrate all the conversations (discussions) but what would be truly desirable is a platform built form ground up using social networking at the base and business apps on top of it. I have tried Injoos Teamware (www.injoos.com) and found it captures both informal and formal knowledge like documents in one single workspace on the cloud.

By: Tim Reily

Tim Reily — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:42:40 +0000

This is a very good succinct list of good reasons the cloud is coming fast.. and it will come faster and faster not at a steady pass as competition heats up and it goes open like Open Platform as a Service http://www.openplatformasaservice.com These are exciting times for developers as well as they can spend more time developing applications and less time worrying about the infrastructure. Open and easier – the future is so bright I need my umbrella!

By: Joe Weinman

Joe Weinman — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:29:36 +0000

Digitalisierer – there are a few that immediately come to mind, e.g., caching, compression, and cryptography. Local caching–as WAN accelerators perform to minimize latency and bandwidth needs– should clearly be done on site (although there are also benefits to doing it in the network, e.g., content delivery network pinning or MRU caches). Compression (and decompression) should be done locally; same with encryption and decryption. Developing a judicious balance of enterprise data center and cloud is an individual decision, which also depends on your costs vs. cloud provider costs, enterprise application architecture and legacy considerations, industry vertical characteristics, core strategy, etc.

By: Paddy Raghavan

Paddy Raghavan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:29:18 +0000

Great summary! As mentioned in the article, a lot of non-core functions can be outsourced with the help of the cloud.
We at 8KMiles (www.8kmiles.com) use the cloud to enable no cap-ex outsourcing for SMBs and Start-ups. The 8KMiles virtual outsourcing ecosystem provides on-demand access to talent (developers, testing professionals and project managers), infrastructure (remote desktops and servers) and tools.

By: Digitalisierer

Digitalisierer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:49:26 +0000

That’s a nice list of possibilities for cloud, Joe.

To have the full picture, I would have like to see also some non-compelling cases.

For Cloud, are there any drawbacks / risks or cases where the traditional local non-cloud service is better?

By: Viable Business Models for the Cloud « Cloudonomics

Viable Business Models for the Cloud « Cloudonomics — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:18 +0000

[...] cloud services, Cloudonomics, use cases, web Today GigaOm posted my latest thoughts on compelling cases for clouds. Here is a more in-depth compilation of viable business models for the cloud. I broadly define [...]