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Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing"

Posted by timothy on from the chance-of-haze-leading-to-fuzziness dept.

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)"

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  1. The greatest use of Cloud Computing: by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gives Wired and other mags yet another buzzword topic to claim is newfangled and great when really it's just a new paint job on an idea that has been around for decades. But no, really, it's a paradigm shift, we SWEAAAR. Bleh.

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  2. Re:Software 10.0 ? by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i didn't just miss assembly. i still do.

    it's a shame no one gives assembly the respect it deserves.

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  3. Re:Oh I know what it is! Let me let me! by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You've been poking around the Dilbert Buzzword Generator, haven't you?

    http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi

    Samples:

    It's our responsibility to continually provide access to low-risk high-yield benefits and collaboratively administrate economically sound materials while promoting personal employee growth

    It's our responsibility to authoritatively negotiate market-driven technology so that we may conveniently build low-risk high-yield opportunities to stay competitive in tomorrow's world

    We have committed to assertively integrate high-quality infrastructures to exceed customer expectations

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  4. Not quite "grid"... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't remember "grid computing" being quite the on-demand system that, say, Amazon EC2 is. What makes it cool is the ability to scale it up and down on demand, rather than in months or years.

    Or maybe it's some combination of grid computing with virtualization.

    And yes, it's pretty much a buzzword. Just like Web 2.0 or AJAX or all the rest. It's a useful abstraction, but not a world-changing "paradigm shift".

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