So let me just stop you right here for a moment. If you though, reading the title, “Yeah, which is the right choice?” You have been misled. Where your hardware sits does not make your system a Cloud, despite the fact that many people talk about the cloud vs on-prem …
Where is your Cloud; who can see it?
In this final of four posts series on “What is the Cloud?”, Robert Starmer, CTO and Principal of Kumulus Technologies, explains the differences between the deployment or access models and wraps up the journey through the parts of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s formal definition of cloud …
Answering the question, “What is Cloud?” can be hard. This will help.
With all the opinion-based cloud computing definitions out there, it is hard to come to an agreement about what “the Cloud” or a ‘cloud service’ is. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a clear and concise definition of what “Cloud” is that has been broadly …