RIP SUN – King Of Java Passes Away

The IT lab at the NIST – National Institute of Standards – has taken a stab at defining cloud computing. Here is a snippet:

“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”

Read up the two page draft doc on the definitions here. Or, download a comprehensive presentation on the state of cloud computing here.

NIST promises a special publication that that will cover cloud architectures, security, and deployment strategies for the federal government.

NIST publishes on topics ranging from weights and measures to building and fire research. This is as mainstream as mainstream can be.

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RIP SUN – King Of Java Passes Away
According to Alex Handy, a SUN shareholder, at 10:05 AM PST on July 16, 2009, SUN Microsystems quietly passed away. Apparently, there was no one there but a bunch of shabbily dressed “old folks”. New York Times reports that “loud mouths” Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz were not there for the final send off. A Sun spokeswoman told the NYT that Schwartz was ill… Continue…