Gordon And Mike's Ict Podcast

On Monday (5/2/10) Mike Q and I recorded a podcast titled Cloud Computing Technologies. The podcast references a couple of Infoworld.com documents that I think you will find interesting: A short white paper written by Eric Knorr and Galen Gruman titled What does Cloud Computing Really Mean A 21-page document titled Cloud Computing Deep Dive Report This Deep Dive report breaks down cloud computing into 11 categories and goes into more detail than the shorter white paper. What's really interesting is the categories are different in each document. You can see where the confusion lies when it comes to defining what cloud computing is. Here's the 11 cloud technologies we discuss: Storage-as-a -service Database-as-a-service Information-as-a-service Process-as-a-service Application-as-a-service (a .k .a . software-as-a-service) Platform-as-a-service Integration-as-a-service Security-as-a-service Management-/governance-as-a-service Testing-as-a-service Infrastructure-as-a-service We also discuss the C