Category archive: Cloud Computing de-mistified
Anti-fragility and the Chaos Monkey: this is what IaaS is all about!
All this money, and brains too One of my favorite non-fiction authors at the moment is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His claim to fame: he foresaw the meltdown of the Financial System – pre-2008. In his books ‘Fooled by Randomness’ and ‘The Black Swan’ he makes a very compeling case that our current financial system is…
What is Infrastructure as a Service?
What is IaaS? Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) means that you can rent a computer plus storage capacity via the (inter)net and only pay for what you use. The ‘compute’ power delivered via IaaS is available immediately – as in ‘as-fast-as-you-type-your-credit-card-details’ – and there are no technical limitations (only financial) to the number of machines that can be…