What’s the big difference between cloud computing and grid computing? The goal of cloud computing is to put system administrators out of work. That’s one way of looking at it, at least. Steve Armentrout, CEO of Parabon Computation, says that was the perspective tossed out by a couple of Google and IBM reps at a panel discussion in which he recently participated. Armentrout suggests a less Dickensian way of looking at it: cloud computing is about “providing a datacenter that is fully automated.”
At the Nexus of Grid, Cloud and HPC
October 17, 2008