Definición de IBM: «La informática en la nube es un forma de computación donde las capacidades tecnológicas se ofrecen como un servicio, permitiendo a los usuarios acceder a herramientas de tecnología en la nube sin necesitar conocimientos técnicos ni controlar la infraestructura». Sigue leyendo...

I expect to see a lot of spin from Microsoft's competitors as they try to find ways to detract from the capabilities of Microsoft Online. But it seems to me to be just what we need, right now: secure, reliable, low-touch, and a price that probably can't be beat with internal resources. Sigue leyendo...

But if it really is unreliable and buggy as Solyanik claims — and the current outage of Feedburner’s Web analytics service lends further weight to this view — then Google doesn’t even make the grade as a business-class SaaS provider. Sigue leyendo...

Once upon a time we scaled databases by buying ever bigger, faster, and more expensive machines. While this arrangement is great for big iron profit margins, it doesn't work so well for the bank accounts of our heroic system builders who need to scale well past what they can afford to spend on giant database servers. Sigue leyendo...

Cloud computing could become as ubiquitous as personal computing, networked campuses or other big innovations in the way we work, but it’s not there yet. Sigue leyendo...

“Infrastructure is a differentiator. I use FedEx as an example. They are world’s most predominant distribution company. It wasn’t that they had a great brand or they had all these plans. No, what they did was find these strategic landing fields where they could get in and out quickly to key distribution points across the globe. Sigue leyendo...

Most people view cloud computing not as access to computing resources, but access to services ranging from application-specific offerings such as Salesforce.com to compute grids like that of GoGrid or EC2. Sigue leyendo...

The long view shows that this really is an important change, one of several major shifts in computing that have taken place over the last 40 years, each of them driven by costs and shortages. Sigue leyendo...