Michael Fitzgerald wrote a nice piece on cloud computing, entitled When the Forecast Calls for Clouds, which was published on Inc. Magazine this week (online and print). The article gives anice overview of the topic and then goes into three specific use cases -- on-demand unexpected scalability, infrequent large batch jobs and volatile (seasonal) loads. It gives actual customer examples and discussing the technologies they used such as GigaSpaces and RightScale.
Read the full story here.
