text: Not for several years has a new concept generated so much noise in the blogosphere as "cloud computing" has in the past several months. Is this just hype, or is it actually something new? Is this another flash in the pan, or is it a long-term paradigm shift (ugh)? This talk will propose some informed answers to those questions (specifically, "yes, it is new" and "yes, it is long-term"), will identify challenges as well as opportunities for the continued growth of cloud computing, and will relate these to our own experience as cloud computing users in our research and teaching activities.
  Armando Fox, Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Lab, University of California, Berkeley
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