Tuesday, May 04, 2010

About cloud computing

Michael Otey of Windows IT Pro wrote this informative post on the rise of cloud computing. Otey said:

One of the most prominent IT trends to emerge in 2009 was cloud computing. It's a technology that has been wholly embraced by vendors, but businesses remain justifiably skeptical. Even IT pundits widely disagree about the future of cloud computing: Is it yet another thinly veiled attempt to resurrect the widely rejected era of the mainframe and thin computing, or is it the basis for an all-new type of application that represents the future of computing? In these tight economic times, cloud computing’s promise to cut costs makes it a compelling offering. So, what are today's vendors offering? [Read More]

Otey's post is a good read and is worth viewing by folks contemplating this technology.

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