Intel's CloneCloud

Gaming may lead the way to a new technology era: the 3rd rebirth of computing, when incompatibility between devices, games and platforms will become a distant memory. Instead, the private cloud will funnel resources to smartclients -- more than thin clients but less than PCs. Intel's CloneCloud project could help make this idea a reality.

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Open Cloud Manifesto v1.0.9

A call to action for the Worldwide Cloud Community.

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Berkeley University's View of Cloud Computing

"Cloud Computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and the hardware and systems software in the datacenters that provide those services. The services themselves have long been referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS), so we use that term. The datacenter hardware and software is what we will call a Cloud. When a Cloud is made available in a pay-as-you-go manner to the public, we call it a Public Cloud; the service being sold is Utility Computing. … We use the term Private Cloud to refer to internal datacenters of a business or other organization that are not made available to the public. Thus, Cloud Computing is the sum of SaaS and Utility Computing, but does not normally include Private Clouds."

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Switching from the hard drive to the "cloud"

Banking analysts last year forecast that cloud computing could be worth $160billion in the next few years. Last year technology players were scouring the world for remote sites near water supplies, which they need to keep the clusters cool - places to build cloud server farms, the equivalent of computer generating stations with countless computers lined up to take on the hard work that used to happen in-house.

Yet Microsoft and Google have scaled back plans. It is unclear if this is a result of the economic downturn or if the future of the cloud computing is uncertain.

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Microsoft's Gazelle Web Browser

Microsoft Research released an interesting PDF about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that's constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with the browser kernel exclusively protecting resources and sharing across Web sites.

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Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)

The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum is a group of industry stakeholders that are active in cloud computing.

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Gdrive

Google Drive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services to enable editing of supported document types, like spreadsheets and presentations via Google Docs, email via Gmail, images via Picasa Web Albums, etc.

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