The concept of cloud computing is not new and has been championed, at times heavily, during the past 20 years by IBM Relevant Products/Services, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and countless amounts of venture capital dollars. While a lot of the current press talks about this “new” frontier, a quick bit of history may give business and information managers a better framework for leveraging this important new way of computing.
The Cloud vs the Platform: What’s Best for the Enterprise?
November 20, 2008