One of the areas on which we reached clear agreement in the G-Cloud and App Store phase 2 was the definition the layers of the stack, infrastructure, platform and software, and their corresponding scalable, standardised counterparts: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). Pleasingly, our delinations were very similar to prior work from two decades ago by IBM, except that ours incorporate virtualisation.
Following my involvement with the UK Cabinet Office’s G-Cloud and App Store programme I’m updating my definition of Cloud Computing, and also incorporating the NIST definition. My answer is “Cloud = Grid + (Utility * N)”, and here is how I arrived there…
The British Computer Society’s Data Centre Specialist Group has released a beta version of their data centre cost and energy simulator to members of the specialist group. The simulator has come out of the Carbon Trust’s Low Carbon Collaboration initiative jointly funded by BCS and Romonet. Here are my first impressions from the preview a few weeks ago.
McKinsey issued a report today stating that outsourcing to the Cloud will actually cost more money! They are just, plain, wrong. This is why…
This post has now been superseded by my updated
Posted on 21/04/2007, 10:40, by Katy. Tags:
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Well, it has been over 3 months since I last posted, which is rather feeble! In my defense I have been insanely busy – winning various awards for service and innovation does rather take up one’s time *looks smug*. Seriously though, trying to write a sensible blog (OK, look, I did say “trying”!) is surprisingly [...]
“Shoot ‘em in the head!” was a shout to be heard emanating from our office late on Friday afternoon. No, not an attack of killer-zombies, but actually some research & development work…
“So, do you use Cisco firewalls as well as routers?”, asks the client; “No, actually.” is our response. Why, you might ask? Surely if you are running over a thousand servers and managing hundreds of individual firewalls you must be using Cisco or some other branded “firewall appliance”? But why must we? What is so [...]