Notes about various kinds of clouds from Schwartz talk

most basic: Infrastructure as a service cloud [you must own or be building an operating system] (amazon)

more advanced: Platform as a service
Portability gets lost (google/facebook)

currently going strong: Application as a service (CRM)


unified computing:
convergence of computing, networking, and storage

"free penetrates every marketplace" (near quote)
sun.com/cloud

cloud computing at wikipedia

network theory at wikipedia







"There's a network of clouds in your future."