Warum Cloud Computing?
Guter Artikel bei O'Reilly - Argumente und Szenarien für Cloud Computing:
Zitat:
Cloud-ification is Upon Us
When mobile broadband is stripped to its core, you are really left with two underlying constructs. One is the premise of being able to access your media, information and apps anytime, anywhere, and two is the precept that you need fast, perpetual connectivity to make the user experience reliable and robust enough to become mission critical.This is the domain of cloud computing, a mode whereby software, hardware and service layers are loosely coupled enough that the data, logic and presentation elements of an application can be partitioned (as needed) between local and remote instances.
In essence, when applications are cloud-ified, they gain persistency, federation and derivation capabilities, enabling the same core to be assembled in a way that addresses the needs of specific runtime scenarios, device environments and scaling requirements.
As such, cloud-ified apps become liberated from a single instance or a single client application, enabling all sorts of interesting composite applications to promulgate.
That is why the same Twitter tweet can be presented so dramatically different in a desktop Twitter dashboard application, like TweetDeck, the Twitter.com website and the Tweetie iPhone client.
Quelle:
The Mobile Broadband Era: It's About Messages, Mobility and The Cloud - O'Reilly Radar