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Cloud computing is a computing paradigm shift where computing is moved away from personal computers or an individual server to a “cloud” of computers.
Google has big plans for cloud computing.
What will research clouds look like? Tony Hey,
vice-president for external research at Microsoft, says they’ll
function as huge virtual laboratories, with a new generation of
librarians—some of them human—”curating” troves of data, opening them
to researchers with the right credentials. Authorized users, he says,
will build new tools, haul in data, and share it with far-flung
colleagues. In these new labs, he predicts, “you may win the Nobel
prize by analyzing data assembled by someone else.” Mark Dean, head of
IBM’s research operation in Almaden, Calif., says that the mixture of
business and science will lead, in a few short years, to networks of
clouds that will tax our imagination. “Compared to this,” he says, “the
Web is tiny. We’ll be laughing at how small the Web is.” And yet, if
this “tiny” Web was big enough to spawn Google and its empire, there’s
no telling what opportunities could open up in the giant clouds.
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