Cloud Apps Don't Necessarily Scale Automatically

Considering all the marketing hype about cloud computing, some might be left with the impression that apps, once deployed in the cloud, automatically scale up and down with demand. Not true. If this topic is of interest to you, please have a look at my latest blog post at The Cloud View. Here, I provide a more complete list of thoughts on this topic that stem from my quotes in a recent article at CIO.com.

Enterprise Demand Driving Vendor Consideration of Internal Clouds

Please see my latest post at The Cloud Option about an emerging micro-trend in cloud computing platforms—the licensing of PaaS platforms for use in private data centers.