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Written by Stew
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
 I recently read Nick Carr's 'The Big Switch': Rewiring the world from Edison to Google. It's a fairly eye-opening account of how the internet is continuing to evolve and how one day we will access internet services via a web browser in the same way that we now have access to electricity. If we want to power our electronic devices we simply plug-in and go. The same will soon be possible if want to create a web page, spreadsheet, written document, convert a file, draw a picture or even make a video. I'm talking, of course, about Cloud Computing. But is it simply web-based apps? Could there be more to it than that?
The term Cloud Computing is certainly the IT buzz word of the moment, and like many buzz words, suffers from not having any clear definition of what it actually means. This video goes to some lengths to try and get closer to a working definition and features interviews with prominent IT folks who you would think have their techie fingers right on the pulse. What's clearly apparent however, is that cloud computing means different things to different people.
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