Comments on: What The Hell Is Cloud Computing? http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/what-the-hell-is-cloud-computing/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: abraham http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/what-the-hell-is-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-21 abraham Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:02:10 +0000 http://abraham.taherivand.net/?p=141#comment-21 Agree - you definitely brought it to the point Markus! Agree – you definitely brought it to the point Markus!

]]> By: Markus Klems http://abraham.taherivand.net/2009/08/what-the-hell-is-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Markus Klems Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:49:53 +0000 http://abraham.taherivand.net/?p=141#comment-20 Larry Ellison makes a few good points. #1 The IT industry is fashion-driven. Absolutely. No one wants to miss the next big thing because the costs of not being up-to-date largely outnumber the costs of sinking some money into an IT fashion fad. At least this is the case for the big IT elephants. #2 Legacy systems matter. Absolutely. Never change a running system. And btw, mainframes have advantages over distributed systems (lower management costs, better energy efficiency, etc.). Organizations who have bought into legacy computing systems won't just dump them. The Cloud will not replace all existing systems but rather enable opportunities for new business models. Larry Ellison makes a few good points.

#1 The IT industry is fashion-driven. Absolutely.

No one wants to miss the next big thing because the costs of not being up-to-date largely outnumber the costs of sinking some money into an IT fashion fad. At least this is the case for the big IT elephants.

#2 Legacy systems matter. Absolutely.

Never change a running system. And btw, mainframes have advantages over distributed systems (lower management costs, better energy efficiency, etc.). Organizations who have bought into legacy computing systems won’t just dump them. The Cloud will not replace all existing systems but rather enable opportunities for new business models.

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