Another Definition of Cloud Computing
Posted by bmackay on August 16, 2009
And another excellent presentation from Simon Wardley on the topic.
Cloud Computing is a generic term used to describe the disruptive transformation in IT towards a service-based economy driven by a set of economic, cultural, and technological conditions.
His definition moves our thinking away from the narrow, vendor-driven definition of cloud computing (relating to products and technologies) to include the social, economic factors leading to this shift to services. Spot on I say. From OSCON 2009:
