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Engagement experiences on the real-time web. Prototypage. AWS Service Health Dashboard - Apr 28, 2011. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. News. Visualization. Activity sensors. Buzz API - Google Code. Agile. Development. When Cloud Computing Doesn’t Make Sense - Bits Blog. Clouds, clouds, clouds. Everyone talks about Google-style cloud computing — software as services off in the Internet “cloud” — as the future. But while cloud computing is a marketing triumph, new research from McKinsey & Company asserts that trying to adopt the cloud model would be a money-losing mistake for most large corporations. The research is being presented at a symposium on Wednesday afternoon, sponsored by the Uptime Institute, a research and advisory organization that focuses on improving the efficiency of data centers.

The McKinsey study, “Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing,” concludes that outsourcing a typical corporate data center to a cloud service would more than double the cost. “The industry has assumed the financial benefits of cloud computing and, in our view, that’s a faulty assumption,” said Will Forrest, a principal at McKinsey, who led the study. Clouds, Mr. The average server utilization in a data center, according to McKinsey, is 10 percent.