Dell Heads To The Clouds With New Blog
Dell has a new web site for the Cloud crowd which will be promoting the newest and latest for people who have their heads in the Clouds. On their web site Dell states:
Cloud computing I believe represents the greatest opportunity in the foreseeable future and may in fact become the basis for most modern IT services in the next few years.
As we begin this journey, I propose that we create a clean definition upon which we all agree and hopefully create an architecture reference model for it. I certainly don’t want anyone to post anything they feel contains their IP or the key to their business, but such a vehicle will create a common reference and the opportunity to evolve the industry in the direction we want to see cloud computing evolve.
Here’s my take at a definition for Cloud computing: packaging of computing resources in a manner that will provide lower acquisition cost of hardware, packaged in a way that provides a set optimized services to the end user via the Internet in the most cost-effective, operationally efficient means possible.
For those who are unsure exactly what Cloud computing is, wikipedia has a fairly decent article which describes cloud computing as:
In general, the label suggests that function comes from “the cloud” — often understood to mean a public network, usually assumed to be the Internet — rather than from a specific identifiable device.
For more information check out the links below.
Dell Cloud web site is here.
Wikipedia cloud definition is here.
Comments welcome.
