Musing on Cloud Computing

I was talking to a system software engineer and he asked me whether cloud-computing is just the generalization of virtualization, i.e., a much bigger, multi-tenant version of server virtualization deployment.  I thought about it and there is some merit to this argument.  At the same time, I indicated there are at least 2 other elements [...]

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VMworld 2008

Paul Maritz’s keynote spoke about the company’s attempt to broadly address the changes in the computing infrastructure:  existing means of computing (e.g. Windows infrastructure), emerging web frameworks (e.g. AJAX, …)-people are no longer writing traditional windows applications (experimentation), diversity of clients (e.g. iPhone, …).  3 initiatives (i.e., ideas that would be products ==> opening for competitors): 
* “data center [...]

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