Cloud Computing is the new buzzword, but can it deliver the expected?
Remember ‘Grid Computing,’ a concept that emerged almost
a decade ago and was talked about in the IT arena as ‘the’ idea that would take away computing from the desktop to an imagined central hub – of course known to most, today, as the Internet. After a promising start ‘Grid Computing’ eventually found no takers, but the idea lingered on and has now made a comeback of sorts, reinvented and rechristened as ‘Cloud Computing’ or simply stated, a cluster of programs running through thousands of parallel computers and accessible through the Internet.
So shall we call it the first death-nail to the idea of personal desktops with individual copies of Windows Vista? Not for now but it’s surely an idea that has also taken big daddy Microsoft into its grasp – the people originally deriding the entire concept of Ethernet-connected graphics terminals but have now released Windows Live – a photo sharing and file storage application served from new data centers instead of just being served on the usual desktops.
But what exactly is ‘Cloud Computing’ and what is it about the idea that is causing ripples amongst geeks and technocrats alike? For one, you can call it a cluster of low cost extremely fast processing servers capable of handling tens of trillions of complex calculations in a jiffy that can be accessed through the Internet, thus empowering the common man in a way the Supercomputers have done to large corporations and government agencies.
Recently, on November 15, IBM embraced the process of ‘Cloud Computing’ by releasing a system named Blue Cloud, which will allow the banks to distribute their programs and processes across number of machines, delivering faster data analysis. “We’re aiming to train tomorrow’s programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day,” says IBM’s CEO Samuel J. Palmisano commenting on the tie up that aims at providing research setups to several American Universities, with Carnegie Mellon paving the way. Even Yahoo jumped into the ‘Cloud Computing’ bandwagon on November 12, allowing schools and colleges to conduct software research, housing around 4,000 processors to run on Yahoo servers.
However, the journey from ‘Grid to Cloud Computing’ is full of stumbling blocks. Be it the lack of Internet infrastructure or ignorance of mobile devices centred at tapping the Web world through ‘Cloud Computing’, for without a proper focus, the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ will simply remain just another brilliant idea. Are the tech biggies like IBM and Yahoo listening?
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
Remember ‘Grid Computing,’ a concept that emerged almost
a decade ago and was talked about in the IT arena as ‘the’ idea that would take away computing from the desktop to an imagined central hub – of course known to most, today, as the Internet. After a promising start ‘Grid Computing’ eventually found no takers, but the idea lingered on and has now made a comeback of sorts, reinvented and rechristened as ‘Cloud Computing’ or simply stated, a cluster of programs running through thousands of parallel computers and accessible through the Internet.So shall we call it the first death-nail to the idea of personal desktops with individual copies of Windows Vista? Not for now but it’s surely an idea that has also taken big daddy Microsoft into its grasp – the people originally deriding the entire concept of Ethernet-connected graphics terminals but have now released Windows Live – a photo sharing and file storage application served from new data centers instead of just being served on the usual desktops.
But what exactly is ‘Cloud Computing’ and what is it about the idea that is causing ripples amongst geeks and technocrats alike? For one, you can call it a cluster of low cost extremely fast processing servers capable of handling tens of trillions of complex calculations in a jiffy that can be accessed through the Internet, thus empowering the common man in a way the Supercomputers have done to large corporations and government agencies.
Recently, on November 15, IBM embraced the process of ‘Cloud Computing’ by releasing a system named Blue Cloud, which will allow the banks to distribute their programs and processes across number of machines, delivering faster data analysis. “We’re aiming to train tomorrow’s programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day,” says IBM’s CEO Samuel J. Palmisano commenting on the tie up that aims at providing research setups to several American Universities, with Carnegie Mellon paving the way. Even Yahoo jumped into the ‘Cloud Computing’ bandwagon on November 12, allowing schools and colleges to conduct software research, housing around 4,000 processors to run on Yahoo servers.
However, the journey from ‘Grid to Cloud Computing’ is full of stumbling blocks. Be it the lack of Internet infrastructure or ignorance of mobile devices centred at tapping the Web world through ‘Cloud Computing’, for without a proper focus, the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ will simply remain just another brilliant idea. Are the tech biggies like IBM and Yahoo listening?
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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