Cloud computing in the enterprise

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New-economy icons like Google and Amazon, with Internet-speed innovation in their DNA, have announced a dizzying array of cloud computing services, and InformationWeek quoted Google CEO Eric Schmidt as saying that with the exception of security requirements, “there’s not that much difference between the enterprise cloud and the consumer cloud.” If that’s true, it shouldn’t be too difficult for a Google or Amazon to leverage a strong consumer franchise and initial success servicing, say, Facebook application start-ups such as Animoto Productions, and rapidly penetrate blue chip Fortune 500 enterprises.

But old economy stalwarts like telcos have made cloud computing announcements, too. Consider, for example, AT&T’s recently announced Synaptic Hosting service, utilizing its 38 global Internet datacenters.

An interesting article talking about enterprise cloud computing, something I expect we’ll see more of possibly in grid/virtualization? It’s going to depend on the sensitivity of the data as well as the cost of buying in against self provisioning. The concept of paying just for what you need (in terms of flexibility) might just be more invaluable than owning the infrastructure, being able to scale the IT around the business requirement to cope with those short term bursts of capacity we might need could be one of the reasons for cloud computing. We’ll have to see. In a cloud solution who declares the carbon footprint?

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