Cloud computing is all the buzz these days. Amazon, who'd a thunk it, is leading the charge with their Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3).
So, what is all the buzz about? Cloud computing is the next generation of the ASP or hosted model. It is not unlike a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model either.
Essentially, you can load up your application to someone else's server and pay them for storage and bandwidth and utilization. Sounds kinda like a web host, eh? That's a good analogy.
Today, EnterpriseDB announced that we will be offering EnterpriseDB Advanced Server Cloud Edition. Though it is currently a BETA program, the potential is huge. Load up Advanced Server in the cloud and scale out/up as necessary without having to worry about maintaining the infrastructure and, even better, pay for usage only in small increments of time. Instead of having to purchase a large server that is mostly overkill, but sufficient for the peaks in your business, you can run it all on the cloud without a worry.
Sounds like the future is just around the corner!!!
