Computation as a Service

From the initial days of computers, it has been a dream  of every computer scientist to distribute computational workloads across  different machines and let them handle computationally intensive jobs in parallel. There have been many such initiatives in the academic and scientific communities including the SETI project. Technologies have matured to an extent that this [...]

Anatomy of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is an umbrella offering that comprises of the following elements
1.     Infrastructure as a Service (GoGrid, Rackspace etc)
2.     Storage as a Service (Amazon S3, Microsoft SQL Services etc)Â
3.     Computation as a Service (Amazon EC2, Windows Azure etc)Â
4.     Platform as a Service (Microsoft Azure, Force.com, Google Apps Engine etc)
5.     Software Applications as a Service (Ex: Salesforce.com CRM, [...]

What is Cloud Computing ?

Cloud Computing is more than a technology. It is more than a platform. It is more than just a hosting provider. It is more than just an application hosted as a service. It is more than providing storage services on the internet.It is a combination of all the above.Â
In today’s economic environment as Enterprises try [...]