Jon Biedermann's DonorPerfect Blog
Cloud computing, as I define it, is the ability for organizations to rent
computer time and space from the "cloud computing" services such as those
from Amazon and Google. It is generally viewed as an alternative to either
hosting your own infrastructure yourself, or outsourcing your infrastructure
but managing it yourself (in essence, a private "cloud").
Here at DonorPerfect, we employ the private cloud strategy, because we feel
that we are experts in software management, but not hardware. As such, we
manage the software, and rely on expertise from our hardware infrastructure
service provider, Peer1. Together, we deliver our solution as "Software as a
Service", or SaaS, which is one of the techno-buzzword-bingo words you'll
find today in our industry.
But are we going far enough??? There's even more buzz in the industry that
one sho... (more)