@Patrick Sir, Granted you could be right. Cloud is new terminology could it be describing something we have always had? When Wananchi or Africa-Offline offered hosted mail using Zimbra or Exim wasn't this cloud services? How different is it from what google mail is doing? FYI consider the latest cloud solution be deployed by a leading Telco provider do you what the BoQ has: - - Cisco Servers and Switches. - Blade servers. - EMC Storage. FYI since it's being sold as cloud and not individual components? Pricetag $15M (gasp). This is equipment any serious enterprise is running, but for one we call it a cluster and the other is a cloud. I am amazed at how gullible we are by new terminology and marketing mambo jambo. There's no trend here it's the same old stuff under a new name. Kiania On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Muoki is right - The cloud means different things to different people.
@David - You're bound to nauseate, when you refuse to accept a terminology that was probably not taught to you in class, Frank Gillett and Larry Ellison will not convince IT professionals to adopt another term to suite their opinions.
e.g Google remains a cloud(there I said it!!) technology vendor because organizations can outsource mail server services from them, instead of having to deal with competencies and budgets of running their own data centres.
Its the new term on the block..... you either work with it or stick to the old term (location-independent computing), like the guy who still grins at computers because he thinks they could only make his manual way of book keeping more difficult if not complicated. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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