Charles, reporting from Coop’s Corner informs us that IBM, the biggest of the Big Blues, has made in investment in cloud computing. What is cloud computing? Computerworld Magazine defined it like this:
Cloud Computing describes a system where users can connect to a vast network of computing resources, data and servers that reside somewhere “out there,” usually on the Internet, rather than on a local machine or a LAN or in a data center. Cloud computing can give on-demand access to super-computer-level power, even from a thin client or mobile device such as a smart phone or laptop.1
This blog is being hosted on a cloud on-demand system.
IBM was nicknamed “Big Blue” and the source to the nickname is not known although many have guesses.2 Regardless of how it started, in our modern culture IBM is the quintessential Big Blue.
I’ve just coined the term “Cirrus Cloud Computing.” There are different levels of cloud computing so I though the systems that are massive should have the highest cloud rating. I’m using cloud computing and I’ve blogged about it here. My cloud computing use would be classified as “Nimbostratus Cloud Computing” because it is more of a lower level use of the cloud system.
Cloud computing’s future is loftier with Big Blue starting a Cirrus Cloud Computing seeding project.
- Russell, K, Cloud Computing, Users can hook into the power of ‘out there.’ August 4, 2008 Page 25 Computerworld Magazine [↩]
- Retrieved from BloggingStocks, Sattler, Gary E. Company nicknames: IBM, Big Blue is true blue August 8, 2008 Website: http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/08/08/company-nicknames-ibm-big-blue-is-true-blue/ [↩]
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