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Six infographics that illustrate the growth and power of cloud computing
Three of the Internet's largest hitters are now deeply entrenched in cloud computing: Amazon leads with EC2, Google is second with its App Engine, and Microsoft is moving quickly up with its Azure. With competition comes improved performance, features, and slashed prices -- and thus even more movement from standard servers to virtualized cloud solutions.
Anyway, I can waffle on and on about cloud computing, but the truth is... I don't know much about it. Chances are, most of you don't know much about it either. It's one of those buzzwords that is spewed incessantly by tech bloggers, but never really explained. These six infographics describe, in a nutshell, the benefits, growth and power of cloud computing. Given how cloud computing, over the next few years, will take over IT infrastructure, and thus the Web, they're well worth 10 minutes of your time.
The first is from Wikibon:
Now, a lovely one from GigaOM:
The next is from Cloudhypermarket:
Another one from Wibbon:
A final one from Webbon, which illustrates just how big this thing is getting:
And the last is from Zenoss:
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Subscribe to commentsClovisDec 1st 2010 4:02PM
Sears Tower was renamed over a year ago, its the Willis Tower now.
Sebastian AnthonyDec 1st 2010 7:47PM
@(Unverified) Well ya learn something new every day!
SpankyDec 1st 2010 7:46PM
Download Squad should jump on this now to setup a cloud blog. I promise that by this time next year, it will be bigger than Auto News or Weird News.
Sebastian AnthonyDec 1st 2010 7:47PM
@(Unverified) We're actually meant to be covering more cloudy stuff... stay tuned!
AurrinDec 2nd 2010 4:11AM
God, I hope not. I've never met a cloud app that could run half as fast as a local desktop application, advances in browser speed be damned. And frankly, I don't *want* all my data in the cloud. You never know what people may do with it, or if it will still exist a year from now.
We're re-inventing thin-clients and the entire operating system in a browser and calling it 'progress'? Sure, it's good for businesses, but the sooner the rest of the world gets over the love affair, the better.
It wouldn't bother me so much except that I can see that soon no one will produce desktop apps if it goes this way: we'll be dragged into the clouds whether we want them or not. Google Voice has already gone this route: they refuse to produce a desktop client for it. (A shame, as that's all that stops me from using it as a general-purpose call center.)
UberSilDec 3rd 2010 9:15AM
Is it me or do all those infographics just look like advertisements for why we, and businesses, should use the 'cloud'?