Not All Clouds are Created Equal: What's Really Behind the Curtain of a Cloud 2.0 Platform
Title : Not All Clouds are Created Equal: What's Really Behind the Curtain of a Cloud 2.0 Platform Edition : 2017 Year : Authors : Genesys Publisher : Genesys Preface Ask just about anyone and they’ll say they’re “in the cloud.” But, as most technology leaders know, not all clouds are created equal. There are significant differences between hosting a legacy application in the cloud, hosting a multi-tier application in the cloud and running a system that can take full advantage of cloud scaling and resiliency. The first cloud communications systems emerged about 10 years ago. If you look at these first-generation cloud companies, they took a legacy technology stack, put it into their private data centers and called it a cloud. Cloud 1.0 had some advantages: It could scale with fewer resources than on-premise systems; it was a little faster; it also gave companies a sense of redundancy. However, a...