Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Developers with innovative ideas for new Internet services no longer require the large capital outlays in hardware to deploy their service or the human expense to operate it. They need not be concerned about over-provisioning for a service whose popularity does not meet their predictions, thus wasting costly resources, or under-provisioning for one that becomes wildly popular, thus missing potential customers and revenue. Moreover, companies with large batch-oriented tasks can get results as quickly as their programs can scale, since using 1000 servers for one hour costs no more than using one server for 1000 hours. This elasticity of resources, without paying a premium for large scale, is unprecedented in the history of IT.
%0 Report
%1 armbrust09abovetheclouds
%A Armbrust, Michael
%A Fox, Armando
%A Griffith, Rean
%A Joseph, Anthony D.
%A Katz, Randy
%A Konwinski, Andy
%A Lee, Gunho
%A Patterson, David
%A Rabkin, Ariel
%A Stoica, Ion
%A Zaharia, Matei
%D 2009
%K cloud computing distributed-systems
%T Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing
%U http://berkeleyclouds.blogspot.com/2009/02/above-clouds-released.html
%X Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Developers with innovative ideas for new Internet services no longer require the large capital outlays in hardware to deploy their service or the human expense to operate it. They need not be concerned about over-provisioning for a service whose popularity does not meet their predictions, thus wasting costly resources, or under-provisioning for one that becomes wildly popular, thus missing potential customers and revenue. Moreover, companies with large batch-oriented tasks can get results as quickly as their programs can scale, since using 1000 servers for one hour costs no more than using one server for 1000 hours. This elasticity of resources, without paying a premium for large scale, is unprecedented in the history of IT.
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abstract = {Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making software even more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware is designed and purchased. Developers with innovative ideas for new Internet services no longer require the large capital outlays in hardware to deploy their service or the human expense to operate it. They need not be concerned about over-provisioning for a service whose popularity does not meet their predictions, thus wasting costly resources, or under-provisioning for one that becomes wildly popular, thus missing potential customers and revenue. Moreover, companies with large batch-oriented tasks can get results as quickly as their programs can scale, since using 1000 servers for one hour costs no more than using one server for 1000 hours. This elasticity of resources, without paying a premium for large scale, is unprecedented in the history of IT.},
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author = {Armbrust, Michael and Fox, Armando and Griffith, Rean and Joseph, Anthony D. and Katz, Randy and Konwinski, Andy and Lee, Gunho and Patterson, David and Rabkin, Ariel and Stoica, Ion and Zaharia, Matei},
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keywords = {cloud computing distributed-systems},
month = {February},
posted-at = {2009-03-02 13:19:59},
priority = {0},
timestamp = {2009-10-30T23:05:20.000+0100},
title = {Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing},
url = {http://berkeleyclouds.blogspot.com/2009/02/above-clouds-released.html},
year = 2009
}