On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > just the topic of what "Cloud" means is a substantial presentation on it's > own.
Ive stopped using the term cloud except when being generic or ironic. I use SaaS, IaaS and PaaS so that I say exactly what I mean. SaaS: Software as as Service: Salesforce.com, EventBright.com, Google Apps, etc. IaaS: Infrastructure as as Service: Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, etc. PaaS: Platform as a Service: Google App Engine and similar systems. Alternatively... SaaS: It's a web site! IaaS: It's a VM! PaaS: It's a framework! Tom P.S. This article gives some good definitions. It isn't that technical and I can give it to CTOs and executives: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/4/81493-a-view-of-cloud-computing/fulltext -- See you in Boston! Dec 4-9, Boston, Usenix LISA, www.usenix.org/event/lisa11 Dec 4-5, Boston, ACM CHIMIT, chimit.acm.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
