Cloud Computing: Well, how did I get here?

I really feel there is an analogy that can be made between Cloud Computing and the lyrics of the David Byrnes/Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime, “Well, how did I get here?” A Wikipedia article describes the song as dealing with a middle age crisis and the inevitable sacrifice of youthful ideals and dreams for conventional success…Only for Cloud Computing, I think it’s more like the youthful ideals of paying for what you use along with the availability of dynamically allocated compute capacity that will forever change the conventional wisdom of computing whether you are a startup, why again are you not using Cloud? or an established corporation looking for datacenter automation.

While a lot of people are still defining Cloud Computing including the WSJ on Thursday March 26^th, “The Internet Industry Is on a Cloud — Whatever That May Mean”. I think Appistry’s VP of Marketing Sam says it as eloquently as anyone when he describes Cloud Taxonomy: Applications, Platform, Infrastructure. So my goal with this blog is not to re-define Cloud Computing, but rather to help people understand how they can create, deploy and manage these dynamic cloud solutions in cost and time saving ways.

Until next time –

Mark