Gartner report points that we have reached the crescendo (or close to) of the hype cycle around cloud computing. There is a lot that has been written and said about this topic. If you break it down it comes to some fairly common set of words and some jargon. It is possible; people who are saying and writing are rehashing the same set of materials! I did a rather simple exercise (not very scientific). For a period of two weeks wrote down common words that were used to describe cloud computing.
Here are my observations a) Lots of repetition. b) Some of these words are fairly generic and so they have probably multiple meanings to the author or speaker. c) Some of the words have negative connotations, not surprise to a rather bleeding edge computing paradigm. d) Lots of optimism and hence the hype (except maybe some big guys like Larry Ellison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0)
Here are the common used words that you see in relation to cloud computing…
Utility computing, private clouds, public clouds, scaling, elastic, reliable, pay on use, on-demand, pay-per-drink, no hardware, no software, Software as Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Hardware as a Service, Virtualization, security concerns, lack of control, regulatory &compliance issues
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