What the Hell is Cloud Computing?

The Chief Geeks of Nasdaq and HP give the 30-second answer.

There's been a lot of buzz about Cloud Computing the last few weeks. For those of us with our feet still on the ground, a panel of top CIOs and CTOs gave the executive overview at last week's Summit at Stanford.

Anna Ewing invites us to think "distribution": Take high-powered enterprise technology and make it available to the masses via the internet. Russ Daniels of HP talks about the more practical aspect of cloud computing. He believes the essential ingredient is virtualization--getting someone else's computer to do your work for you. This brings down your company's operational costs, freeing up capital while making your company overall more efficient.

But it's not all about the bottom line, says Salesforce.com's Polly Sumner. Cloud computing also makes enterprise software more human -- SaaS providers are driven to deliver superior customer service, since clients can leave at any time. Imagine that -- technology forcing us to be more human. Check out the video for more.

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Science & Technology

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• cio
• cloud+computing
• cto
• hp
• nasdaq
• salesforcecom

[randknu]

I'm sure they have NO idea what they are talking about, they are just spewing out a lot of sentences that sounds good.

[geminito]

Execspeak at its finest. Inane, meaningless garbage.

[Geeker030508]

They both sound like jackasses... Neither of them know what they hell they are talking about... But then again that is they key! Use big random words and if no one knows what your talking about...no one can say your wrong.

[87655788]

maybe is me or some but, does anyone got the answer ?

[KrasHHH001]

what the fuck did he say? where was the cloud?

[snowgum2]

@quarvis I laughed so genuinely much!! my thoughts exactly

[TheDraconiankiller]

Wonder if this would eliminate peer to peer downloading?

[pspecho]

I don't really understand the benefits cloud computing. But it looks like a way to combat piracy. Since everything is not stored in your HD, you can't share it with anyone else. So if you buy a game, movie, app, or book it is stored some place other than your HD. Moreover, every time you wan't to watch a movie or even play a single player game you need to access it online -- I'm sure your isp is going to like that (sarcasm). I like the idea, but having a slow connection is painful.

[codematrix]

@ALogic1200 - this is good explaination, plus lower TCO. But I don't see more than this. CC is nothing but hype in my opinion.

[quarvis]

Cloud computing is this: repackaging existing technologies into a hyperjargonized ball of horseshit.

[ganherngyih]

@randknu Typical management ppl.They dont knw much