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In The Brain of Alexis Richardson: An Intro to Cloud Computing
An Intro to Cloud Computing
We, and our partners, believe Cloud Computing represents a major shift in the way everyone will use computers. The benefits are huge; people will only pay for what they use, utilisation will improve by up to four times, the £ impact and the Green impact will significant.
But....there is much confusion & a lot of unfounded fear and skepticism. There are questions over security, data location, service levels, control, management, but there are answers that will satisfy the majority of organisations.
We are vendor neutral, we want to break down the barriers to adoption and to accelerate the growth of Cloud Computing.
Topics covered include:
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Why use Clouds?
- Who is doing what now and what are their plans?
- What are the barriers to using Clouds?
- How can there barriers be broken down?
- Lots of Q&A
More at cohesiveft.com
Review:
In this seminar, Alexis Richardson gives a concise introduction to the new cloud computing business model. Cloud computing has allowed organisations to switch from using privately owned & specialised IT hardware to using pay-as-you-use services provided by other companies to run their software applications.
Alexis begins by putting the concept of the cloud forward as an abstraction - for the use of a large collection of complex IT infrastructures. Via a grid-like technology that is underpinned by virtualisation, corporations like Amazon can provide services that allow customers to quickly and (often) easily upload their programs to the 'cloud' for processing. After a certain amount of time, the results are available - much more quickly than traditional use of private computing technologies.
Further into the talk, Alexis weighs the pros and cons of switching to a cloud-based computing model. For instance, companies have to weigh the risks of less control over the technology and their data with the benefits offered by utilizing a massively scalable grid (ability to cope with high peaks in demand).
Review by Jim Li
ABOUT ALEXIS RICHARDSON
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Alexis Richardson is CEO and co-founder of Rabbit Technologies Ltd., the commercial support company behind RabbitMQ, a leading implementation of the AMQP open business messaging standard. Alexis is also co-chair of OCCI, the new initiative from OGF t
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PODCAST AN INTRO TO CLOUD COMPUTING
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