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.
I thought I'd try and interesting experiment by preforming a find & replace of the word "Cloud" with the word "Internet" using the Draft NIST Working definition of Cloud Computing. The results sheds some interesting light on some of the key problems facing the term cloud computing and how it's defined. Next time you're reading a cloud article, try replacing the word cloud with Internet and see what happens.
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.