What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the next stage in evolution of the Internet. Cloud computing provides the means through which everything from computing power can be delivered to you as a service wherever and whenever you need.
Those of you who have been in IT for one decade or two, would remember that the first type of client-server application that was popular is the mainframe and terminal application. At that time, storage and CPU was very expensive
In the early 1990s, the budding Internet finally had enough computers attached to it that academics began thinking seriously about how to connect those machines together to create massive, shared pools of storage and compute power that would be much larger than what any one institution could afford to build. From there "the grid" began to take shape.
The difference between grid computing and cloud computing is hard to grasp because they are not always mutually exclusive. In fact, they are both used to economize computing by maximising existing resources.
However, the difference between the two lies in the way the tasks are computed in each respective environment. In a computational grid, one large job is divided into many small portions and executed on multiple machines. This characteristic is fundamental to a grid; not so in a cloud.
By Conviction InfoTech
Those of you who have been in IT for one decade or two, would remember that the first type of client-server application that was popular is the mainframe and terminal application. At that time, storage and CPU was very expensive
In the early 1990s, the budding Internet finally had enough computers attached to it that academics began thinking seriously about how to connect those machines together to create massive, shared pools of storage and compute power that would be much larger than what any one institution could afford to build. From there "the grid" began to take shape.
The difference between grid computing and cloud computing is hard to grasp because they are not always mutually exclusive. In fact, they are both used to economize computing by maximising existing resources.
However, the difference between the two lies in the way the tasks are computed in each respective environment. In a computational grid, one large job is divided into many small portions and executed on multiple machines. This characteristic is fundamental to a grid; not so in a cloud.
By Conviction InfoTech
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