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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectMcGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora projectPosted Oct 5, 2010 11:35 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project by drag Parent article: McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project The problem with cloud computing is that your definition is right, but so are a dozen others. Cloud computing, to hear people talk of it, is also any web-based application, any application that stores files remotely instead of locally, and any mechanism that allows in any way for the client to become irrelevant. More properly your definition is correct, it's clustering and virtual machines at a massive scale, it's software as a service, it's MULTICS all over again! In the end it's a useless buzz word without a proper meaning. HTML5 is almost as bad because it's used the same way, but at least it does have a proper meaning.
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McGrath: Proposal for a new Fedora project Posted Oct 5, 2010 15:14 UTC (Tue) by jthill (guest, #56558) [Link]
Cloud computing, as near as I can tell, is the promise that the Morlocks will stay far away: ops&admin happens elsewhere and is done by other people. There is no computer (which term has messy ops&admin connotations), there is no file (which can get lost or damaged). There is only the cloud.
"Cloud" is a catchy tag, and there's a lot to be said for economies of scale on ops&admin.
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