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Cloud computing in plain English

Cloud computing in plain English

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Tags: Computer crime, Design, Distributed systems organizing principles, File systems management, Management, Security, Security and privacy, System management, Theory, Web applications, Web services

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Pointers

'Click’s Favourite Cloud Links'

Click’s BBC News
See in particular G.ho.st, a global virtual computer hosting site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7464153.stm

'Microsoft to battle in the clouds'

BBC News
See in particular the short video clip on Microsoft Azure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7693993.stm

Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Cloud Computing Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Info World article: 'What cloud computing reall means'

The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals...