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The business of clouds

At the turn of the 20th century, companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the electricity grid. In his now famous book The Big Switch, Nick Carr analogizes those events of a hundred years ago to the tectonic shift taking place in the technology industry today.

The business of clouds

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Tags: Design, Distributed retrieval, Distributed storage, Electronic commerce, Management, Online advertising, Peer-to-peer retrieval, 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

ACM SoCC 2010

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/socc2010

Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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

Cloud Computing Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Jargon

IaaS

infrastructure-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

PaaS

platform-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

SaaS
software-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing