Friday, July 10, 2009
Amazon EC2 vs. "On Premises Price Calculator"
The folks over at AzureJournal have put together a handy Google Doc Spreadsheet which gives a rough comparison of in-house vs EC2 costs for a given scenario. You can also do what-if analysis by changing some of the parameters on the fly.
"Infrastructure in the Cloud Era"
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Google Chrome OS ... The Cloud is King!
So the cat is out of the bag! and Google IS going to go the Operating Systems way after all!
The paradigm is changing and Google is on top of things! The fact is that Google is one of the very few companies to realize and recognize that "The Web is The Computer", or as the old saying at Sun Microsystems used to go, "Network is the Computer".
While Sun Microsystems paid only lip service to the mantra while doing everything they could to lock their customers in, Google has put their money where their mouth is.
Just as the Data Center side of the "client/server" coin moves to the "cloud", so does the client side. The users want the flexibility that comes with managing and keeping their data in the cloud, with an increasing likelihood that this data would also be processed by data centers which exist only in the cloud.
From the Google Blog announcement re: the Chrome OS:
Amen to that!
The paradigm is changing and Google is on top of things! The fact is that Google is one of the very few companies to realize and recognize that "The Web is The Computer", or as the old saying at Sun Microsystems used to go, "Network is the Computer".
While Sun Microsystems paid only lip service to the mantra while doing everything they could to lock their customers in, Google has put their money where their mouth is.
Just as the Data Center side of the "client/server" coin moves to the "cloud", so does the client side. The users want the flexibility that comes with managing and keeping their data in the cloud, with an increasing likelihood that this data would also be processed by data centers which exist only in the cloud.
From the Google Blog announcement re: the Chrome OS:
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
Amen to that!
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