[dba-Tech] The new Cloud

For the last few years most of us have been listening to various reports on
the expansion and growth of the cloud and some may even view it as a ominous
threat on the horizon.

We have each tried tentative steps into that environment via DropBox,
SDExplorer, Amazon store, Ubuntu One, some pseudo internal clouds and so on.

Right now unless, you or your company has deep pockets most of these
solutions can be expensive and they provide little support, like even basic
backups and security. As an IT tech, it will take as much time (more?) to
manage your company's Cloud data as it takes to manage the company's
servers.

Enter the second generation of Cloud suppliers. There is now much more
automated services built-in and data syncing available, right out of the box
with less necessity to "roll your own" solutions. Amongst, numerous
white-papers on the subject here is an overly short overview article on the
new PaaS(Platform as a Service) or BaaS(Backend as a Service) features:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/14/the-second-generation-of-cloud-startups-is
-here/

...for more and a better graph (one that can be read easily) see the
following link:
http://www.kinvey.com/blog/images/2013/01/kinvey_backend-as-a-service_mobile
ecosystem_jan-14-2013_2100px.png

If you are living in or have most of your work in the larger centers as an
active Tech it will be very important to become versed in this subject.

Jim