Cloud Economics 5: Data on Tap
An analogy of purchasing a cup of coffee explains some of the factors that go into providing faster, and therefore more valuable, cloud services. What is the real-time approach?
Bob McIlvride is the Director of Communications at Skkynet, as well as Communications Manager at Cogent Real-Time Systems, and is responsible for writing and editing technical documentation and marketing communications, as well as keeping in touch with sales partners and customers. He has a Master’s degree in Professional Writing, and 25 years experience writing and publishing in the natural gas and process control industries. He has lived on three continents, speaks three languages, and considers the whole world as his home.
An analogy of purchasing a cup of coffee explains some of the factors that go into providing faster, and therefore more valuable, cloud services. What is the real-time approach?
Time is related to distance, even in cloud computing. Since timeliness has value, a better location should give better value. So maybe location does matter. The question is, how much?
Real-time cloud computing is all about the value of timeliness. People who are watching and interacting with real-time processes expect at least the same kind of responsiveness as you get with Google.
Joe Weinman chooses to define the concept of “cloud” in cloud computing in a way that brings out five essential attributes that are common to other cloud-like systems in business and life in general.
I thought it might be a good idea to take a deeper look at the business and economic side of cloud computing, and see how the latest thinking about cloud economics may or may not apply to real-time applications.
In a recent Linkedin discussion among the SCADA Professionals group, Manny Romero, of Madison Technologies in Sydney, Australia suggested that the cloud could provide “SCADA to the masses.”
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