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What is the state of cloud computing?


By Robert Mullins
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May 15, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879, but it took about 30 years for an electric utility industry to form and deliver what today one might call electricity “in the cloud.” Guy Creese believes history will repeat itself with cloud computing—and it might take another three decades.

“I would say if you end up … dismissing cloud computing out of hand, you’re making a mistake,” said Creese, an analyst at Burton Group.

Besides the entrance of large players such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and, more recently, a preview release of Google’s App Engine, some cloud computing initiatives used last month’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as a launching pad.

Cloud computing makes sense for the same reasons it made sense for homes and businesses to get electricity from a utility in the early 20th century, as opposed to having people operate their own generators: It’s cheaper, less complicated and allows a company to concentrate on its core business.

“With cloud computing, you have the freedom not to have to run a data center, because you just pay as you go,” said Essy Nickolova, a marketing vice president at 3Tera, which exhibited its Cloudware architecture at the Web 2.0 Expo, under the banner “Cloud Computing Without Compromise.”

Although not a cloud provider like Amazon, Cloudware is based on 3Tera’s AppLogic grid computing operating system. Four of the main cloud providers identified in a March Forrester Research report use 3Tera architecture to set up applications to run in the cloud.

Other cloud providers first help clients build a software application and then run it for them in the cloud.

Bungee jumps in
Bungee Labs introduced its Bungee Connect development platform at the Web 2.0 Expo along with its hosting service. Applications can be hosted in one of two Bungee data centers or on Amazon’s EC2 service, access to which Bungee resells. Moreover, clients can host Bungee-developed applications in their own data centers if they’re not yet ready to reach for the clouds.


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