Elastic Cloud
I had the good fortune to attend a Black Marble event on cloud computing last week. One of the things that Simon Davies (a friend and colleague at Microsoft) talked about was the future of Azure and the Microsoft cloud offerings. At the start of his presentation Simon used two quotes to summarise Cloud computing: “A style of computing where SCALABLE and ELASTIC IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.” Gartner, Inc. “Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing,” 2009, by Daryl Plummer et al, July 16, 2009 “A standardized IT capability, such as SOFTWARE , APP PLATFORM, OR INFRASTRUCTURE , delivered via Internet technologies in a pay-per-use and self-service way. “ “How To Message "Cloud" Offerings And Not Get Lost In The Fog,” Forrester Research, Inc., July 2009 What struck me most about these two was the term Elastic. Most customer ‘cloud’ conversations I have focus on scale – ‘I want my application to be highly available and highly scaleable’ And of course companies offering cloud based solutions such as Azure rightly focus in on this area
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Elastic Cloud
