It’s easy to dismiss cloud computing as just another case of vendor- and visionary-fomented hype far outstripping reality. There are a few reasons to think that cloud computing’s empirical reality (measured in terms of production deployments) will soon catch up with its undeniable hype (see: http://www.esj.com/Enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3252). One big reason is just how seriously the big server OEMs — Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), IBM Corp., and Sun Microsystems Inc. — appear to be taking cloud technology. Over the last few months, IBM has opened several cloud computing centers, adding to a quiver of computing-in-the-cloud resources.
Cloud Computing, Big Iron-Style
December 9, 2008