Cloud Computing Qualities
In light of what we now understand of the foundations of cloud computing and
cloud services, what qualities does the cloud model exhibit?
Pooling Resources at Massive Scale Cloud demands scalability at every level.
When we assemble computing hardware, we graduate to a higher grade of
networking requirements than typical infrastructure demands. Cloud generates
cost benefits at scale, cloud presents computational and storage value at scale,
and with scale, we get new opportunities. this aspect of aggregating servers and
network capacity to scale holds true for both public and private clouds.
Repeated Patterns At a basic level, infrastructure patterns rule how countless
duplicated IT components are configured. From system components to power
and network cabling and from hardware nomenclature to configuration
management, patterns are optimized to eek small margins in building and
provisioning and managing and operating cloud infrastructure. Lights out
management, remote operations, and fail in place objectives such as these
drive the refinement of patterns.