James Urquhart posted a summary a week or so ago of what he described as the "Big 4" players in
Cloud Computing. It was a slightly humorous pass at describing their approaches and offerings:
Below is a table that lists these key players, and compares their offerings from the perspective of four core defining aspects of clouds. As this is a comparison of apples to oranges to grapefruit to perhaps pastrami, it is not meant to be a ranking of the participants, nor a judgement of when to choose one over the other. Instead, what I hope to do here is to give a working sysadmin's glimpse into what these four clouds are about, and why they are each unique approaches to enterprise cloud computing in their own right.
James provided quite a bit more (serious) detail in the text below his table which I present to you here, tarted up with a column I've added and James left off titled "Security."
It's written in the same spirit as James' original, so feel free to take this with an equally well-provisioned grain of NaCl. I'll be adding my own perfunctory comments with a little more detail shortly:
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Rational Survivability: The Big Four Cloud Computing Providers: Security Compared (Part I)
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