Hug Your Servers Goodbye Cloud Computing Vocabulary - Cloud Computing Wiki Cloudburst: The term cloudburst is being use in two meanings, negative and positive: Cloudburst (negative): The failure of a cloud computing environment due to the inability to handle a spike in demand. Reference:"The only way to do cloud computing efficiently is to share the cloud - to establish a broad, multitenant grid (or a number of them) that balances the loads of many different companies. Otherwise, it'll be one cloudburst after another, and a whole lot of underutilized capital assets." Cloudstorming: The act of connecting multiple cloud computing environments. Vertical Cloud: A cloud computing environment optimized for use in a particular vertical -- i.e., industry -- or application use case.Reference: "The verticalization of the cloud would provide marketing benefits, as Friedman notes, while also providing a possible means of addressing issues of information security crucial to industries such as health care and financial services."
Cloud Computing Management Platform by RightScale Internal external private public hybrid virtual cloud « RightScale Blog I'd like an external private hybrid cloud, dry, with whole milk, please! Enterprises rise to the cloud, terminology takes off - as if we didn't have enough cloud confusion already. But it's not all bad news - some of the terms do make sense. Note that I'm exclusively talking about infrastructure clouds (IaaS) here, like Amazon EC2, so all this is orthogonal to the SaaS vs. Many of the benefits of the cloud to central IT are independent of the exact nature of the cloud: Automation increases reliability and system administrators' efficiencySelf provisioning by end users reduces IT menial laborCost reduction by homogenizing and simplifying the infrastructure But when we get to regulatory, security, and financial benefits internal/external and public/private cloud types come into play. Several combinations of the above make sense: This nomenclature turns out to be useful in teasing out the benefits of these various types of clouds. That leaves the word "hybrid."
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice. To help smooth the transition from Office to the cloud, my teammates and I founded a company called DocVerse, which was acquired by Google earlier this year. Over the last 9 months, we’ve been hard at work moving the DocVerse product to Google’s infrastructure. We’ve also renamed it Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. For those of you who have not made the full move to Google Docs and are still using Microsoft Office, Google has something great to offer. Users of Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 can sync their Office documents to the Google cloud, without ever leaving Office. Posted by Shan Sinha, Group Product Manager
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