Stephen DeAngelis's "Enterprise Resilience" Blog
Google is following a common pattern used in the IT industry - get something
out there and then tweak it as necessary. I'm not sure how all of this will
play out. I do know that when the elephants start fighting a lot of dust will
be raised. Only when that dust settles will we have a better idea about the
future of cloud computing and the Internet.
As New York Times technology columnist Steve Lohr reports, "Hardly a day goes
by, it seems, without some announcement of a new “cloud computing”
offering or initiative." ["Commercializing the Cloud," 1 August 2008] Lohr's
column was about two new IBM data centers that are going to be built in Tokyo
and North Carolina.
"The I.B.M. statement says its North Carolina operation will afford its lucky
customers 'unparalleled access to massive Internet-scale computing
capabilities w... (more)