Cloud Computing Is Descending
Monday, October 27th, 2008The IT forecasts requests widely spread clouds, in the sense that cloud computing hovers on the skyline. That was the consensus among the panelists at Cloud Summit Executive conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Cloud computing is descending, everyone looked to agree, slowly to big organizations, more quickly to smaller ones, largely because it is financially demanding.
The definition stayed evasive. Cynics might favor Oracle . CEO Larry Ellison’s drive that cloud computing is marketing gibberish or free software guru Richard Stallman’s assertion that cloud computing is a trap.
Columbia law student and tech blogger Luis Villa, in a recent blog post, noted that there are actually four kinds of clouds: traditional applications, hosted elsewhere services affecting data that can’t (yet) be handled locally ; services that make creation of new data technically or economically viable; and services offering computing and storage, rather than data Web Services.