Here is the link to download a .pdf copy of the presentation Dave Douglas, the head of Sun's Cloud Computing Business Unit will be talking from for his chalk talk today at 1:00p Pacific.

Russ

Does anyone else find this type of story in Computerworld tiresome?  I mean does this story really help anyone with anything?

I know that writers at Computerworld seldom write their headlines, but give us a break.  I guess we were warned when the first person quoted had their comments lifted from a blog.  The real payoff was the quote, "There will be things for the enterprise that will completely make sense and things that won't."

 I'm blinded by the light on that one.

Can we please get some more meaningful stories on this topic?  Not a list of things that have gone wrong with an area that's essentially new.

Hello there.  I've been bitten by the cloud computing bug here at Sun, so I'm going to focus on that for a while.

As this chart from Google Trends show, the volume of traffic on Cloud Computing is growing fast.

As I've gotten involved, I've been struck by the number of traffic that is “defining” cloud computing.
At the recent SD Forum event there was a lot of defining the technology in the presentations.  Type in 'cloud computing definition' into your favorite search engine and you'll see what I mean.

As this video suggests, there's really no set definition. 

With all this, does the definition really matter?  When the buzz cycle hits like it is for cloud computing, there's a natural tendency to want to help by defining.  But like Web 2.0, or web services, or grid computing the definition the we end up with, if one ever resolves, will likely be to high level and vague to be much specific use.

Sure, the term will get you in the general area of what you might want to discuss, but when a segment of the market thinks that cloud computing means they have to give up the rights to their pictures stored on a 3rd party website and another segment wants to have a discussion about APIs, then spending time on a definition is fruitless.

So having said this, its clear that something big is going on with cloud computing.  There are too many people who want to take advantage of a different kind of economics around computing for this to be a fad.  Whatever the definition.

That's enough for now, I'd love your comments.