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By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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What the Heck Is Cloud Computing?
A Unified Theory for Cloud Computing

By: Reuven Cohen
Jul. 29, 2009 10:15 AM

I just had an epiphany in my never ending quest to answer one of life most delicate questions -- "what the heck is cloud computing?" My sudden realization comes in the form of a grand unified theory for the term cloud computing. It's elegance is in it's simplicity ;)

Cloud Computing is an Analogy

for a Metaphor wrapped in a Euphemism.

CC = E(A<=M)

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About Reuven Cohen
Reuven Cohen is Founder & CTO for Toronto based Enomaly Inc. - leading developer of Cloud Computing products and solutions focused on enterprise businesses. Enomaly's products include the Enomaly elastic computing platform, an open source cloud platform that enables a scalable enterprise IT and local cloud infrastructure platform. Cohen is a thought leader in the emerging cloud computing industry and maintains a blog at www.elasticvapor.com.

Reuven is also founder of several technology organizations;
 Enomaly.com - Elastic Computing Platform (Cloud Computing),
Cloud Camp - Local Cloud Computing events,
the Unified Cloud Interface Project - Semantic Cloud Abstraction API
Cloud Interoperability Forum - Cloud Standards Group.

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