The first question to answer is of course “what is cloud computing?” Although it might sound like a trivial question, it actually requires some thought to understand what is new and different beyond the sheer technical definition.
First off, here is a video made at the web 2.0 expo 2008.
Clay Shirky obviously gives the stickiest quote :
Thomas Watson said in 1943 that ‘I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers’.
We now know that that figure was wrong…
…he overestimated by four.
Another approach is the inverted definition offered by James Governor at RedMonk
Also there is the discussion of where the term “Cloud Computing” comes from:
