Gary Kim's Blog
Whether one looks at how average consumers “compute,” or how industry
segments “compete,” it now appears that cloud computing is poised to
change the ways users interact with each other, use applications, communicate
and compute. Some of the changes are obvious; others only now developing.
Conceptually, there are several ways cloud computing already is used.
Applications in the cloud is what almost everyone already has used in the
form of Gmail, Yahoo mail, wordpress.com, Google apps, search engines,
Wikipedia or virtually any Web-executable application.
Platforms in the cloud are used virtually exclusively by software developers
and their clients. Developers write their applications to a open
specification and then upload their code into the cloud where th... (more)