Some Cloud Explanation

Daniel Feller talks about Cloud Computing where he aims to understand the explanation on this. In an excerpt:

Am I the only one who has trouble understanding Cloud Computing? Is Instant Messenger considered cloud computing? Is my company's enterprise deployment of XenApp on XenServer considered Cloud Computing? Is the iTunes store considered Cloud Computing?  Why is Cloud Computing so hard to figure out? Well, look at it from a different perspective.

Have you ever laid down on the grass and looked at the sky and tried to figure out what a cloud looked like?  You might think one cloud looks like a puppy and another looks like an airplane while someone else thinks your puppy looks like Homer and the airplane looks like a TV.  Trying to find shapes in the clouds is all based on your perception, just like if you try to get a definition of cloud computing from 5 different people, you will most likely get 5 different ideas. 

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