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By: Links from the Last Few Weeks - March 31st | Armchair Theorist

Links from the Last Few Weeks - March 31st | Armchair Theorist — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:18:45 +0000

[...] The Curious Case of Cloud Computing Money Quote: Ironically, it’s Microsoft’s Hailstorm which first modeled today’s landscape almost 10 years ago, with the on-demand atomization of the InBox, the social graph (contacts), and the realtime inference engine now known as search. Identity, the very thing that brought down Hailstorm, is now being traded like a virtual stock market by the social media clouds as a new form of wealth. [...]

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Can We Really Trust Cloud Computing? — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:19:16 +0000

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By: クラウドコンピューティング円卓会議–満席だけど実況中継ストリーミングあり | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS

クラウドコンピューティング円卓会議–満席だけど実況中継ストリーミングあり | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:02:44 +0000

[...] TechCrunchITの編集長Steve Gillmorとぼくが、この技術の未来について、クラウドコンピューティングのヘビー級チャンピオンたちを質問攻めにする。それについてGillmorが、TCITの記事で次のように書いている: 短期的には、クラウドコンピューティングは経費節約の言い訳になるだけかもしれない。しかし近未来には、ソーシャルなクラウドが複数のワークグループを横断して拡大し、やがては企業の境界を越え、さらには複数のクラウドをも横断することになるだろう。そうなれば、クラウドコンピューティングの黄金時代だ。クラウドという環境でのみ可能なアプリケーションやサービスが、企業の次世代の経営構造を引っ張っていくことになる。 [...]

By: TreasureIslandVegas

TreasureIslandVegas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:48:37 +0000

Big drama for a quick instant…

By: The Scripts Zone » Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:06:04 +0000

[...] heavyweights about where we are with this technology and where we need to go. As Gillmor wrote in a post on TCIT: Short term, cloud computing will slip in as a cost-saving rationale. Near term, the social clouds [...]

By: Alberto

Alberto — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:32:57 +0000

in technical terms, any farm of web servers with high availability is “cloud computing”. The difference with previous web applications like Yahoo Mail were the design constraints related to developing just for the browser and the current trend which is to design for the web/cloud.

By: クラウドコンピューティング円卓会議–満席だけど実況中継ストリーミングあり

クラウドコンピューティング円卓会議–満席だけど実況中継ストリーミングあり — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:31:12 +0000

By: Francine hardaway

Francine hardaway — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:33:41 +0000

I swear, Steve, you can mix more metaphors than a Waring blender. Wish I could be there:-)

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:46:36 +0000

dumb only if we ignore the trigger mechanism that launched the cloud era.

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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:35:17 +0000

By: Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed

Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:10:51 +0000

By: ceejayoz

ceejayoz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:06:45 +0000

That seems like a dumb distinction, and one entirely irrelevant to cloud computing. What makes Gmail a “cloud computing” project and not your usual run-of-the-mill web application?

By: jonelle

jonelle — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:42:02 +0000

Looking forward to reading more. Speaking of cloud computing. I’m looking for a QA Lead for a cloud computing company in SF.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:10:42 +0000

fair point, but Gmail’s impact on user experience was a singular driver in the expansion of the cloud model, while Yahoo and Hotmail were more iterative desktop replacements in comparison.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:08:50 +0000

Michael

Definitions of what cloud computing is are orthogonal to its emergence from the tar pits of Gmail and other social media frameworks. Spare me the lecture on Web 2.0 – it’s Tim O’Reilly’s term. And since you’re handing out homework assignments, here’s one for you: tune in to the Roundtable and find out what the definition of cloud computing is from those who are building it out. Don’t take my word for it, not that you are.

By: MyPhillyNetwork » Liberate The Cloud? You Poor, poor man

MyPhillyNetwork » Liberate The Cloud? You Poor, poor man — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:36:17 +0000

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By: Michael C. Neel

Michael C. Neel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:30:33 +0000

I fear it’s already too late, but can we place not confuse cloud computing with “in the cloud”? Google Docs is just “in the cloud” – an online app. Cloud computing is about using several geographically distributed systems to handle a portion of the application to increase the overall scale, like SETI@Home.

Bringing cloud computing from the research environment to the commercial market is a big deal, on par with the same move the internet itself. We don’t need to mention the latest social website of the day in every article unless the site is actually back ended not by a server farm, but a cloud computing platform.

Last time there was a new term given to technology “journalists” – Web 2.0 – you jacked it up into something it was never meant to mean (hint: it’s about two-way communication and not AJAX). Here is your second chance for me to be able to drop the quotes around “journalists”.

By: TajmahalCasino

TajmahalCasino — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:20:13 +0000

good question… comments please

By: Architectural Technologist - Google and sharing « The Konstrukshon Weblog

Architectural Technologist - Google and sharing « The Konstrukshon Weblog — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:16:10 +0000

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By: Cai Gwinnutt

Cai Gwinnutt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:59:29 +0000

“But in fact, the first instantiation of a working cloud application (and by implication a supporting platform) came with the beta launch of Gmail in 2005″

One question, what makes Gmail a cloud based application and the much older Yahoo Mail not?