Because the commercial sector constantly innovates, DOE labs and centers should continue to benchmark their computing cost against public clouds to ensure they are providing a competitive service.
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Thus, there are plain-vanilla clouds that deliver basic offsite computing, all of the way up to powerful and secure clouds loaded with extra services.
Looking at this list, it should be obvious that are as many different clouds in the computing world as there are in the sky.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
Ever since 2009 when NIST published its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise of community clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financial services market, thanks to NYSE Technologies.
In contrast, 32% indicated that they had done some restructuring of the IT department, and nearly half of those companies had built new roles related to cloud computing, such as workers skilled in building private clouds or departmental liaisons who understand the needs of various lines of business.
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Cloud users stand to benefit much more from cloud computing as the maturity of their usage increases, particularly with hybrid clouds.
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With the rise of tablets, smartphones, social media, apps and personal clouds, we are in the midst of a profound computing shift, perhaps the greatest technology revolution in the enterprise since the invention of the PC.
So how big are the clouds and what percentage of companies currently use applications that run on cloud computing services?
Public clouds from the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft simply are not enough to satisfy all the computing needs of enterprise IT organizations.
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