Re: Who invented the term Cloud Computing?

Note also "Grid" is really a flexible umbrella term that to many people means "whatever I'm working on." For example, a few years ago Foster et al threw around the term "peer to peer" before adopting the Web service approach in 200x.

Marlon

Stuart Charlton wrote:
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> On May 29, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Rizwan Mian wrote:
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>> Folks,
>>
>> After reading wikipedia on cloud computing
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing>, Ian foster's post and
>> a post on Grid Gurus
>> <http://gridgurus.typepad.com/grid_gurus/2008/02/my-head-in-the.html>;
>> I do not find much differences between cloud computing and
>> computational grid.
>>
>> 'Cloud computing' seems to have gained popularity towards the end of
>> 2007 [1]. I could not find any *academic* literature for 'cloud
>> computing' Google scholar. So, I also wonder where did it originate from?
>>
>> Rizwan
>>
>> [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=cloud+computing
>>
>
> A cynic might say that 'cloud computing' is the term for grid computing
> that has nothing to do with academia ;-) I sense a general disdain for
> the standards work to date on computational grids; people think it's out
> of touch with mainstream IT and overly complex.
>
> Having said this, I think the work there is valuable at least in
> enumerating the problems and exploring potential solutions, even though,
> in most cases, the solutions developed by the OGF will not achieve broad
> market penetration.
>
> Cheers
> Stu
>
>
> >

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