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Cloud computing challenges: What do they mean for vCloud, Cloud Center?
Scott Lowe, Contributor
04.29.2009
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At VMworld 2008, VMware unveiled the idea of the Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS). Part of the VDC-OS initiative is vCloud, a move toward using VMware's software to drive cloud computing. But as I expressed in this video at VMworld, there are a number of challenges facing this drive toward cloud computing. In this article I'd like to examine these challenges in greater detail.
What is cloud computing?
The first major challenge associated with "cloud computing" is accurately defining it. Wikipedia defines cloud computing as, "a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds, sensors, monitors, etc."
Certainly the Internet-based angle is what most people tend to strongly associate with cloud computing. Examples like Google Apps and software-as-a-service (SaaS) are cited as proof of this definition. WhatIs.com defines cloud computing as "a computing paradigm in which tasks are assigned to a combination of connections, software and services accessed over a network. This network of servers and connections is collectively known as 'the cloud.'" WhatIs.com goes on to also provide a definition for a private cloud.
While these definitions are useful, they prompt readers to ask a simple ques...
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