Cable operators have done their part, too, building a video-on-demand infrastructure that can supply viewers with a nearly limitless choice of movie titles, available at any time of day.
All of us in IT will be working either at service aggregators, powering on-demand infrastructure, or helping support the smaller systems needed by orchestrators.
Cloud computing presents a unique set of challenges to monitoring including: on-demand infrastructure, unprecedented scalability, rapid elasticity and performance uncertainty.
These companies often lack the resources and capacity to design, deploy and manage their applications, and they're looking for rentable, on-demand infrastructure as a result.
Postmates' unique selling point up to now has been that the company provides delivery and "on-demand" infrastructure to businesses that do not already offer these services and would find it a challenge to build them.
And we invested in Din [formerly called Forage], which is kind of like Blue Apron but that leverages the whole on-demand infrastructure, so you aren't relying on all this packaging and UPS to get food across the country.
Nowadays applications tend to be executed on distributed environments provisioned using on-demand infrastructures.
Among others, the COSMOS project [9] provides a distributed on-demand cloud infrastructure based on Hadoop for analysing Big Data from social media sources.
"The two tech companies are also working closely together with more joint initiatives in the pipeline to improve the on-demand transport infrastructure in Singapore.
The company combines traditional managed enterprise platform services with on-demand cloud infrastructure services and thus aims to serve as an extension of its customers' IT departments.
And it comes on the eve of what could be Google's entry into the on-demand computing infrastructure business with the expected announcement of its BigTable cloud database service tonight.
