Joyent video: What is Cloud Computing?
May 27th, 2008 by Dan YorkIn the weeks and months ahead you’ll hear us talk more and more about “cloud computing” as that term becomes increasingly mainstream (as I did in our Speaking of Standards blog last week). To us, it’s not at all a new concept as it’s what we have been doing with our platform since we launched way back in 1999.
With our hosted platform, we give you a massive computing cloud upon which you can run your voice applications. You just create the application and let our platform (i.e. our “cloud”) worry about scaling, redundancy, computing power, etc. (Our Quick Start Guide gives an overview.) There’s no need to worry about how many “ports” you have or how many server instances or what type of CPUs you are using. All of that fades away. You develop your voice applications (IVR apps or SIP apps) and run them… and our cloud takes care of all the infrastructure.
Of course, if we are doing to talk about the term “cloud computing”, it helps to provide some definition. On this note, I have to really hand it to the folks over at Joyent who compiled this excellent video of responses to the question “What is cloud computing?” from attendees at the recent Web 2.0 conference. Links to the people you’ll see are available on Joyent’s weblog (”Joyeur”) but courtesy of YouTube here is the video:
While Joyent is focused on providing cloud computing for rich web applications, the responses in the video are equally true for the voice applications that we support on our cloud computing platform. (And, like Joyent, we are strong believers that any cloud computing needs to be based on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in.)
Ultimately, what we now call “cloud computing” is the fulfillment of the dreams many of us have had since the early days of computing… creating a massive “cloud”, comprised itself of numerous smaller clouds, which let your applications “just work” and allows you to focus on building killer applications and not having to worry about the infrastructure to run those applications.
It’s a pretty amazing time right now - and we’re thrilled to be part of it all!
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