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Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing"
jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said recently that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world — some of them really quite good. From the article: 'Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)"
... is mainly water vapor.
Ok, unless we speak about software, where is mainly vapor ware.
It's obviously the latest Web 2.0 .NET technology-based user-driven blogging paradigm that gives the bloggosphere the synergy for cloud-based dynamic content platforms!
/business-mode
There are mountains to cross for those that are willing.
Sweet! Wiretaps are cloud computing.
i always thought cloud computing is what happens when a bunch of researchers score really good pot. "i bet we can get more funding if we call it a paradigm shift"
With cloud computing you outsource *all* your hardware.
My firm practices "cloud staffing" then.
Table-ized A.I.
Reminds me of the infrastructure diagrams of corporate LAN's and WAN's back in the 1990's. They would have a diagram of the local network of each site with servers, workstations, routers and firewalls. Then each firewall would be connected to an X.25 cloud (which looked exactly like a big puffy cloud). If it was an internal ID department diagram, then someone would usually add four or more legs and a face or some lightning flashes (then it became an X.25 spider, an X.25 sheep, or an X.25 packet storm).
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
Assembly? I wish we were so advanced. We have to do all our modeling in real-time. Though there's something terribly satisfying when your final calculations are complete and the giant mousetrap fall atop the little rodent...
I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective -- one needs to look at it from the application's perspective, not the system's perspective. The "cloud" represents the resources needed to perform a task -- it's an abstraction used to represent resource acquisition, not resource allocation.
In practice, though, you're pretty close to the truth. Instead of having an allocated set of computers for processing a group's tasks, they can draw from the cloud, which is available to multiple groups. As your computing needs grow, you can have the Cloud take over another computer, which reduces the number of computing resources, but increases the power of the Cloud. This has the advantage of reducing single points of failure, and more efficiently allocating computing resources. Say you start with 100 Macs... as each Mac is subsumed by the MacCloud, the MacCloud grows in strength. Eventually, there can be only one.
Sorry.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
An "infrastructural paradigm shift" that cannot be succinctly described. Or even not-succinctly described. A paradigm shift into the unknown.
Suddenly, this sounds a heckuva lot like the late 90's.
Excuse me, I've gotta go find some VC.
cogito ergo dubito
Cloud computing is all about visionary modular concepts creating adaptive logistical projection
using a distributed scalable core for multi-tiered background ability resulting in a inverse didactic pricing structure.
I hope I cleared that up. It's actually good to see a healthy level of skepticism on this board.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but there has been a thunderous demand for buzzwords that truly represent the crystallization of otherwise cloudy ideas.
No, sadly this one is EASY...
Cloud computing is how computing worked in the 1960-80's - large centralized systems that did everything, and you connected to with dumb terminals. Well it's back, but this time with a different name.
Simple yes, but simple is not exciting.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
will place an ad on Dice.com requiring 5 years in depth experience in all aspects of Cloud Computing.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
lot's of pc's and stuff -|LAN Cloud|->|router |<-->| Internet (big fluffy[scary?] cloud)|<-->|router |<--| LAN 2 Cloud |- lots of other pc's and stuff
(imagine some crappy ascii depiction of the above)
Now we throw a VPN link into this and this becomes the WAN cloud.
Or let's say we get a bunch of leased lines to remote sites and expand our token ring segment off our main LAN...
Of course I didn't RTFA... why would I do that? You really are new here aren't you? Don't let my UID fool you.
Leslie Lamport famously defined a distributed system as "one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable".
http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/distributed-system.txt
In this vein, I would define cloud computing as "a computing system in which the failure of a network you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable".
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Is a system of programming where you just click on pictures so I can still code after my competitors burn out the part of my brain that uses language.
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