Comments on: Are the feds the first to a common cloud definition?

A recent draft of a government standard definition of cloud computing from the NIST is surprisingly workable. Could it be that the feds beat the commercial sector to the punch on this one?

[SIGHUP]

Cloud computing, web 2.0, On demand, ASP (Active service provider). The technology has changed a little but it still just marketing gimmicks for a hosted solutions.

[ebpda9]

good, so i am not the only one feeling the same way.

Just last night I was talking to the president of a cloud computing comp[any and he hates the term just as much as i do.

[Imalittleteapot]

Make that three for three.

[Xphe]

As a blogger on cloud computing, I am really happy to see this sort of definition coming out. Since my blog is in French, I wrote a tentative french translation of the document. It is available at http://grid4biz.com
Comments and feedback will be apreciated.
Christophe

[mikemaney]

Thanks for surfacing. It can only be goodness as we inch closer to a clearer definition of cloud. Your post reminded me of one written by Appistry's Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, disclosure: client) back in Aug 2008 where he took a poetic approach to the cloud definition issue: http://bit.ly/QF1Y8

[enovikoff]

I was surprised to see this definition and people blogging about their attendance at the summit considering that it was made quite clear to us at ENKI that this information was confidential. I understand the assumption in the Web2.0 world that all information is public information, but I also respect that governmental processes don't always work that way, and sometimes with good reason. Perhaps the government is concerned about Cloud Computing for this very reason - that confidential information won't stay that way when it collides with the social and ethical norms of the Web2.0 community.

[farmurr]

There is no definition for Cloud computing, only an infinition.

[Khurt]

"Location independent resource pooling. The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve all consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. The customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources. Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines."

That one is going to be a show stopper for regulated industries where local laws limit where that data can reside or where the business is concerned that local laws require them to give up their encryption keys.

http://www.gss.co.uk/news/article/5191/India's_BlackBerry_dispute_sparks_privacy_concerns/

Apparently all BlackBerry servers communicate through RIMS data center in Canada.