From a cloud computing perspective, you were on mission impossible with the audience – a range from people who’ve never heard of it, through to people who’s business is based on it. Despite that, you definitely kept the audience’s interest – so well steered, and everyone got something out of it. Lots of wisdom in there!

I included Larry’s comments more for comedy value – although he does make valid point in that almost everything is being defined as ‘cloud’ these days – that’s what happens when all the big vendor’s marketing departments jump on the bandwagon. If the Sun acquisition goes ahead it will be interesting to see how their positioning ends up.

I like your four factors – they go a long way to defining what is and what isn’t cloud computing. Very helpful, thank you for sharing!

Thanks for your comments. It is hard to find the right middle ground and cram enough relevant information into 15 minutes.

As regards Larry’s comments, well suffice to say that Oracle doesn’t have any credible cloud computing offerings despite spending a lot of money on its still born OnDemand efforts.

Cloud Computing is,

o Virtualised infrastructure (storage, compute, queueing, entity store, content distribution). This means it can all be configured by software.

o Unbounded access to resources

o Pay as your go/Pay as you use access to those resources

o The ability to scale down as easily as you scale up