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Cloud Computing in Plain English

6 January 2010
Cloud Computing in Plain English

While certain committee members at NIST work on the 16th version of the standards document that defines cloud computing, I decided to to do some (simplistic) research of my own regarding the term. What exactly does cloud computing mean? And how is this different/how has it evolved from an Application Service Provider (ASP)? I used [...]

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Should Cloud Computing Be Called Swamp Computing?

5 January 2010
NC Swamp: Should Cloud Computing Be Called Swamp Computing?

David Talbot at Technology Review published an article recently entitled, “Security in the Ether“. The author writes that the efficiencies of cloud computing are also its weaknesses. Users’ access to all of the bells and whistles a cloud offers could also enable them to attack a specific target, once they were able to get onto [...]

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