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By: Businessweek Cloud Smackdown | John M Willis ESM Blog

Businessweek Cloud Smackdown | John M Willis ESM Blog — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:38:24 +0000

[...] HP, and SUN have not long offered clouds. IBM just announced their â€œBlue Cloudâ€ last year. HP and SUN have announced but not delivered cloud [...]

By: The Big Question at John M Willis

The Big Question at John M Willis — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:39:18 +0000

[...] time commercializing these concepts with EC2/S3 offerings.Â IBM announced its intent to offer the “Blue Cloud” sometime this year and they have also announced a Hadoop plug-in for [...]

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Top 5 Technology Watch List for 2008 at John M Willis — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:01:39 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:58:23 +0000

Hey Jamie,

Thanks for coming back to my blog. I had somewhat of my own ESM meltdown on my blog site as you might have noticed.

Here is my crack at you question…

I think the “Grid” will be considered an evolutionary step toward cloud computing. I think two primary factors will play a role in cloud comuting success.

1) Virtualization maturity. Virtualization and cloud computing are a marrage made in heaven.

2) Web Services maturity. As applications migrate to a WEB 2.0 and or SOA they tend to enable themselves to a clustered/virtual environment much better than legacy type applications.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:44:42 +0000

Can someone explain to me how this differs from Sun’s “Grid”, rent-a-MIP, $1/cpu-hour model, which imho was a total flop? Seriously, how many applications could leverage this offering?