Physically touching the Cloud: Learn what is involved – physical, energy and other demands of having information at your fingertips
Category Archives: Cloud Computing
Why Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a Cloud Leader
Estimates are that Amazon has 800,000 servers in 10 US data centers. Using this service can lower the cost to a business by 95% with greater flexibility. Amazon last year had $50 billion in revenue they believe that Cloud Computing will be as big as their other businesses.
What is Big Data and Why is it Important
Understanding Big Data can increase your sales and protect your privacy. Big Data is not simply data or information. Big Data refers to a way of analyzing a great deal of information by applying artificial intelligence tools. This information does not reside just in your own computer files, such as contact information and purchase history. Big Data refers to tracking information as you surf the web, as well as data captured by Social Media such as Facebook. This information with appropriate algorithms can predict and target consumers, thereby influencing purchases.
Cloud Computing for Farms
Farmers can now keep track of tasks performed on each field, such as seeding, fertilization, irrigation schedules and everything else crop related. Livestock management can be on your iPad as well. There is a new class of low cost software as a service (SaaS) for farmers. Cloud Computing is not just for the corporate office crowd.
Imagine future development of farm supply chains that connect events in the field with forecasting, marketing, sales, processing, and distribution. All in the Cloud.
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Private Cloud
Some enterprise organizations such as Morgan Stanley are building Private Clouds. What is the reason? In their view, Public Clouds still have security and reliability concerns. While addressing some needs of how employees work, Private Clouds will have significant costs affiliated with their development, deployment and support. Companies replacing (or augmenting) legacy systems with Private Clouds are substituting one high cost solution with another. There are more than higher costs at stake for these deployments.
These organizations instead of focusing on innovation that is core to their business are spending valuable resources on building-out technology. This is akin to reinventing the wheel, over and over.
As the web, customer, partner, and vendor engagement methods evolve so must technology change. Therefore continued investment in Private Clouds is an unsustainable model.