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Imaginedvl on 29 August 2013
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richardhutnik said:
Imaginedvl said:

This thread becoming a bashing fest is just reality, nothing to do with you being in a "tribe" or not.

Also I took the time to explain (in bold) what was cloud computing in my post but you focused on your "tribe" thing and on the fact that this thread would become a bashing fest. So for me, you are not interrested into understanding what the cloud computing instances can bring to the Xbox One / PS4. And this is why I believe you are not really interrested by an anwser and you already made your oppinion about it.

Now even if you ignored 80% of my post, If you really Googled for Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing, then you should know what it is and what it can bring to the developpers (in general, not only on Xbox One but also on PS4). If you failed to see that while Googling, then I do not know what else to tell you; it becomes a matter of oppinion at this point.

Understanding the point of my post would help.  The main thrust of it is people getting hyped about the concept without even understanding it.  You saw that the Forza 5 video was rolled out, as evidence of the power.  And what you saw with Forza 5 was merely ease to administer dedicated servers.  The lead on Forza 5 even said this.  It is drinking a bunch of buzzword kool-aid, without understanding.  The core of cloud now, in a practical sense is dedicated servers.  And Microsoft is hyping that.

And the tribe thing came up, because you referenced what you perceived as a stand on consoles was.

And yes, I had googled cloud computing.  It keeps coming up as the virtualization of the management of servers, so you run a pool virtually, making it easier to scale.  There is SOME stuff that would be like what was discussed with grid, but that is not the core of how industry is using it.  The core of it is pretty much client-server, virtualized.  And I did post THIS link on VGChartz (or something like it), regarding the difference:

http://www.vservercenter.com/dedicated-server

And here is my google search:

http://www.google.com/#psj=1&q=cloud+computing+vs+dedicated+server

 

And if you want to compare it vs grid, you have this:

http://www.google.com/#psj=1&q=cloud+computing+vs+grid+computing

 

Well, there is nothing I can add then.

Here was your question : "Again, please show me it is more than just some corporate kool-aid being served here and people swallowing it and hyped, because their console maker of choice needs to be defended."...

Well, as you found out it is all about dynamically allocating vCPUs, computing instance, workers etc... And be able to server millions of console because of this infrastructure (compared to fixed dedicated servers (VM or not). Now, either you do not see anything to be hyped for into that (I see a lot to be hyped for) or you just ignore this fact just because on top of being super scalable it can ALSO be simply used a dedicated server (you seem to really stuck on that part like it is bad to be able to also do that with Azure)...

Either way what is the point of responding to you if you keep ignoring this as the anwser to your question...