Cloud computing isn’t just Hosting 2.0

Bernard Golden, a contributor to the International Data Group (IDG) News Service, talks about why some companies are running into problems trying to put their apps on the cloud. His reasoning is that they’re treating the cloud as if it were just an update to traditional hosting solutions.

In our discussions with these companies, their question is: “Shouldn’t this problem be solved by cloud computing? After all, the cloud offers resource elasticity, processing power on demand, huge scalability. So why is my application running into these problems?”

The challenge they’ve run into is that they treated cloud computing like Hosting 2.0, and now they’re suffering for it.

Read the full article here.