Comments on Ryan Lawler's articles RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/author/ryan-lawler/articles http://seekingalpha.com/article/134492-akamai-we-re-a-cloud-provider-not-a-cdn?source=feed#comment-486259 486259 Fri, 01 May 2009 19:34:06 -0400
Cloud computing has been around since the .com era. There is nothing new about it, it's just a marketing theme along the lines of Web 2.0. I guess since I've been using TurboTax on the web, I've been using "cloud computing" for over 10 years now.

Matthew makes a good point, the cloud branding is there for investors.

Cloud is just sexy terminology to make investors excited, but it's really just a term for something that has already existed for many years now.

Personally, I am hoping to see more adoption of "the Grid," which is in its infancy, and has more disruptive potential, than "the Cloud."

Check out XtreemOS, which is a pioneer in real-time, WAN based grid computing:

www.xtreemos.org/
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