Defining Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing, Promise and Reality
" ... Some of us feel that cloud computing may very well be The Next Big Thing - one of those massive changes that the IT industry goes through from time to time that really shake things up - like the advent of personal computers in the 1980s and the Web in the next decade. Others - a minority in this meeting - feel that this is the IT industry engaged in one of its periodic hype cycles ... "

Former IBM head of research Irving Wladawsky Berger