Thank You To Our Fallen Defenders

Out of respect for those that we in the United States remember this Memorial Day holiday I will not be posting the next part in my series on cloud computing until next week. Please join me in remembering those members of our armed forces who have fallen in the service of our nation and the defense of our U.S. Constitution. Thank you.

The Cloud Defined, Part 5 of 8: Measured Service

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the fifth and final fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Measured Service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level

The Cloud Defined, Part 4 of 8: Rapid Elasticity

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the fourth fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inwar

The Cloud Defined, Part 3 of 8: Resource Pooling

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the third fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different phys

The Cloud Defined, Part 2 of 8: Broad Network Access

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the second fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneou