Picking the Right Cloud Stack for Your Cloud If you have decided to move to the cloud, the first question that you will have to ask yourself: “what will you be moving to the cloud?” The next question will be about the arrangement or modeling of the stack. This is an important question, because reversing the process of stacking is...
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Grid computing vs cloud computing
Grid Computing V.S. Cloud Computing Let us look at the definitions of the two terms and understand the concepts: Grid computing is a collection of computer resources that are loosely coupled, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed. It is a distributed system that works well for non-interactive workloads. Computing resources can be provisioned (from a predefined resource pool) as a utility that...
How public are public clouds?
How Public are Public Clouds? The term public is used in a relative sense in cloud computing. The public cloud is more public than the private cloud. Subscribers to the public cloud share the same underlying hardware and software resources for their computing needs. However, the data that is uploaded by an entity is isolated from the data belonging to...