ASCII Event in Chicago
Today was the ASCII event in Chicago. Turnout was great and we want to personally thank everyone who attended.
Today we had a demo of our private cloud, with VDI connections on a thin client and also on an iPAD. It was awesome to connect the iPAD to a Windows 7 VM. On the demo on the thin client, we were able to demo streaming high definition video.
We did a survey on Cloud Computing and will have the survey results in the next week and will announce the winner of the gBACKUP we are giving away in the next few weeks. Look for the announcement in “This Week at ASCII”.
The Cloud Computing Panel went well, and I think the consensus is that “cloud” means server centric computing and that no matter what one’s definition is, the “cloud” is here to stay, and we must all embrace it to help drive down technology costs, save labor costs, and increase reliability.
I think Google’s idea of cloud is way off base, as they don’t think infrastructure in a datacenter is cloud, they mostly think of it as software as a service. Cloud again is server centric computing sharing resources to many users or companies. This being said, a cloud can be a premise or in a datacenter, and in a lot of cases, on premise can be cheaper.
At the event we were asked what we do, and in all reality, we are turn-key private cloud. We will discuss this more in our next blog post.
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