16 Key Attributes of Cloud Computing

 The term, cloud computing is being used to describe a continually growing list of computing products and services. Indeed, many people stretch the term to include on-premise IT implementations, sometimes known as ‘private clouds’. Unfortunately, definition stretching can render the term cloud computing meaningless. In effect, terminology pollution of this kind helps legacy IT suppliers to slow the adoption of IT as a service and the migration to a utility model of computing. They prefer to continue gouging huge amounts of capital from their customers and to describe their current offerings as ‘private clouds’.

A great way to simplify the concept of cloud computing is to list the key attributes of cloud computing using non technical terminology that non IT specialists can understand. Buyers of IT products and services can use such a list to determine where their computing resources sit on the cloud computing spectrum. They can also use it as a roadmap to determine what needs to be undertaken or negotiated in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing.

Click here for more