Comments on: Cloud Services Continuum

By: eko didik widianto

eko didik widianto — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:40:46 +0000

Thank you.
It makes me get more understanding about cloud computing.

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:53:50 +0000

[...] the current ‘cloud’ market space, although a bit more high level. Robert Anderson had a good post a little while back that distilled some of this, as did Peter Laird via a follow up to [...]

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:25:36 +0000

Terrific summary…Hearing about these companies quite often didnt’ make much sense until i looked at this diagram which categorized them neatly..

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Expert Texture » The Cloud Services Stack — Infrastructure — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:09:10 +0000

[...] posted Cloud Services Continuum a couple of weeks back. In that post I articulated a simplified view of cloud services and [...]

By: Matias Woloski

Matias Woloski — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:44:15 +0000

Excelent! I’ve been working on a diagram among the same lines. I like the separation you did between PaaS and IaaS.

http://blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski/2008/07/10/saas-taxonomy-map/

Thanks
Matias

By: Robert W. Anderson

Robert W. Anderson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:37:53 +0000

Thanks, Jason.

There are a lot of ideas floating around about what Microsoft is up to in the cloud platform space. It sounds like all will be revealed in October at the Microsoft PDC. I bet we’ll see services in beta shortly after that.

In terms of persistent data, Microsoft does have a cloud service: SQL Server Data Services. Ryan Dunn did a session on it at CloudCamp. It is more like a database than S3 with “relational” features coming in the future. You can sign up for the beta through the Microsoft Connect site.

Robert

By: Jason Etheridge

Jason Etheridge — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:17:24 +0000

An excellent summation! You’ve certainly boiled it down, so the reality can be appreciated without all the hyperbole.

Regarding Microsoft’s venture into this space, it seems self-evident that they’ll provide a platform that’s analogous to Google App Engine, but based entirely on a cut-down version of the .NET CLR. It would have the advantage of allowing development in any language that can work on the CLR, and will no doubt be fully supported by Visual Studio. They will also be server-side infrastructure specifically to support client-side Silverlight running in the browser; they’ll also be support for integrating with Live Mesh.

I’m curious what they’ll provide for persistence: the ability to provision SQL Server instances? Microsoft has nothing (that I’m aware of) that’s the equivalent of a scalable persistence store such as Google’s BigTable or Amazon’s S3 or SimpleDB.

It’s a great chance for Microsoft to capture a vast amount of mindshare: a facility giving the hordes of MS developers somewhere to host their web apps, with all the .NET goodness they’ve grown accustomed to.

The only real question is whether Microsoft can make this happen soon.