There were, he announced, only three basic cloud types, and he gave each a Latin name befitting its appearance: cirrus for fiber, cumulus for heap or pile and stratus for layer or sheet.
At the same time, 40 to 50% of these organizations using IaaS use more than one of the same types of cloud.
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Google, he said, is investing in new types of mobile services including cloud computing applications.
Corcovado has roughly 13 types of vegetation, including a cloud forest, a mangrove and a freshwater herbaceous swamp.
In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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Considine said cloud computing is disrupting the entire value chain from the technology to the types of buyers.
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Commercial, scientific and government organizations are figuring out ways to collect new types of data and bringing them into a new type of cloud.
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CIOs and CTOs should keep their eye on the evolution toward maturity of the public cloud and keep close track of the costs of the private cloud so that rational decisions can be made about where to provision specific types of applications and functionality.
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These days, setting up a cloud-based enterprise IT program is so easy that even non-IT types can manage it.
In my last post, I cited examples of new types of jobs being created to handle the management and identification of cloud resources.
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The majority of business data may end up being generated by these billions and billions of Internet-enabled devices of all types, sending back huge amounts of data to corporate servers or the cloud.
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As I tried to show in my last column, as happens in every successful tech industry, the cloud computing industry has begun to stratify to offer different levels of service to different types of customers with different needs and price points.
That IaaS product is CloudForms, which provides a policy and governance structure, so that enterprises can move to the cloud safely and securely, and run and manage applications across physical and virtual servers, and in many types of public clouds.
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