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Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises are getting it wrong, according to experts.

“The whole premise of the cloud should be to drive the IT director to think small, but people aren’t doing that,” says Sharon Wagner, president of Cloudyn, an Israeli company whose SaaS application helps businesses monitor their cloud usage and provides recommendations on how to right-size it. “Many customers are over provisioning, which leads directly to over paying.”

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What if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what’s been called hyper-scale cloud networking?

“Hyper” is the term used generally for something almost unfathomably and exceptionally large. We might say that a regional group of airports is a small air transport network, a national one a larger network, a continental one a big network but the global air-transport system is a hyper network with hundreds of airports, thousands of planes, millions of flights a year and billions of passengers.

A hyper-scale Ethernet network will be global in scale and embrace tens of thousands of cables and switches, millions of ports, and trillions, perhaps quadrillions, of packets of data flowing across the network a year, possibly even more.

Depiction of Internet network.

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Dell’s cloud computing strategy and portfolio of services took a big step forward today with the announcement at VMworld 2011 of its first public cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Services.

In partnership with VMware, Dell will offer public, private, and hybrid cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service for mid-sized and large enterprises. The press release from Dell describes options at each level:

Public – Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service is an enterprise-class, secure offer of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) hosted in a secure Dell datacenter. T

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One approach to smoothing out application demand is a load-balanced server farm. Another is virtualisation to bring extra resources to bear when needed.

But what about public cloud services? Surely they could be used to mop up excess demand?

More disk space, more bandwidth? Certainly, how would you like to pay?

The answer is yes, in theory, with a plethora of public cloud services to choose from, many offering scalable processing power, storage and other resources on a pay-as-you-go or utility basis.

Want more cores? Click a button. More disk space, more bandwidth?

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