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 af... (more)