Wondering what attributes the experts at Gartner define cloud computing by? Read on my friend.
Cloud computing is getting bigger, better and more mainstream every day. Now whether or not the term will (or should) survive is another question, but Gartner has released an outline of the attributes that they follow when deciding if a company/service falls into the “cloud” category, which is relevant in a time when everyone and their mother AND brother are jumping on the bandwagon (I heard about a company who claims to be a “cloud computing billing company” at a recent CloudCamp event and if that doesn’t scream bandwagon I don’t know what does).
Now to the attributes…
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Cloud computing is getting bigger, better and more mainstream every day. Now whether or not the term will (or should) survive is another question, but Gartner has released an outline of the attributes that they follow when deciding if a company/service falls into the “cloud” category, which is relevant in a time when everyone and their mother AND brother are jumping on the bandwagon (I heard about a company who claims to be a “cloud computing billing company” at a recent CloudCamp event and if that doesn’t scream bandwagon I don’t know what does).
Now to the attributes…
- Service-based. The articulation of the service feature is based on service levels and IT outcomes rather than the technology and its capabilities. Could have a user interface, be referred to as “ready to use” or “off-the-shelf.” What the service needs to do is more important than how the technologies are used to implement the solution.
- Scalable and elastic. The service should be able to scale up or down on demand with a level of automation. Elasticity is a trait of shared pools of resources while scalability is a feature of the underlying infrastructure software and platform. This means the services scale on demand to add or remove resources as needed.
- Shares. The services should share a pool of resources to build economies of scale so that the IT resources are used with maximum efficiency.
- Metered by use (or pay per use). The services should be tracked with usage metrics to enable multiple payment models. The provider should have usage accounting to enable pay-as-you-go, subscriptions, fixed plans and even in some cases, free plans.
- Uses internet technology. The service should be delivered using Internet technology and capabilities.
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