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Cloud computing is one of the most discussed topics in the tech world today. It seems as if everywhere you turn, there's some new self-proclaimed "expert" telling the world his two cents on this confusing subject. Unfortunately, when most people discuss this fascinating topic, they often neglect the most crucial element of cloud computing: the cloud context. Cloud computing is all about being connected. If a company takes the same technology and isolates it behind a corporate firewall, they're missing the point entirely. This is why the greatly touted concept of a "private cloud" is a fallacy. In short, you can't take the computational aspects out of the cloud and still term it "cloud computing."
This is where the concept of business-to-business integration becomes very important. It epitomizes all the reasons why cloud solutions have to be engineered from the bottom up to function in the globally connected cloud environment. At the fundamental level, B2B integration connects customers and partners- and in today's world where everyone expects instantaneous communication, it's simply impossible to achieve this without the use of integration platforms that were designed to thrive in the busy cloud environment.
It is in situations such as this that the term "cloud scale" becomes very useful. Cloud scale encapsulates all the aspects that fully functioning cloud platforms must incorporate. Having always-on performance is essential, as well as having the walk up availability and on demand-scalability required to thrive in the competitive world of the public cloud. It's also essential to have open API's and broadly-based bandwidth to give companies the capability of connecting to cloud resources with ease. A core attribute is multi-tenancy, because it enables versionless upgrades and also because a single shared operating instance is always changing to stay afloat with the most involved participants in a cast and diverse customer base.
Regardless of specifications, cloud computing will always offer businesses new connections and allow companies to streamline their technology protocol. If your company has not yet joined the cloud computing revolution, make sure to take a minute and explore all the opportunities in this exciting new realm.
