One of the benefits of Cloud Computing that makes Clouds “Cloudy” is the location independence of its resources. When you provision a Cloud instance, you need not know or care where that instance is physically located — what server, rack, data center, or even necessarily what country. The downside of
Companies that rely on cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Heroku received a very unwelcome present on Christmas Eve. Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure as a service and its Elastic Beanstalk cloud development service, as well as Heroku’s platform as a service, all experienced downtime, knocking out numerous
What trends should we expect to see next year in the cloud computing industry? Here’s a brief overview of what some experts have to say: Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale: “2012 was the year that cloud adoption passed the point of no return for most businesses. In 2013, we’ll see