Bob Gourley publishes article in AFCEA Signal Magazine on Cloud Computing:
U.S. Defense Department’s strategic plan and cloud computing mesh well. Cloud computing could give a major assist to the U.S. Defense Department’s information technology strategy for implementing network-centric operations. The term cloud computing is used in two different ways in the Defense Department. In the general sense, cloud computing is any capability delivered over a network. If it is not local computing, it is from the cloud. Using this definition, all net-centric computing and almost all information technology is cloud computing. Technologist and enterprise architects in the Defense Department use the term in another way. To them, cloud computing implies new ways of providing capability on demand by use of virtualized resources. It involves pools of storage, network, processing and other computational resources that can be allocated efficiently on demand. It also implies far more agility in support of operational missions.
via Cloud Computing Could Support Network-Centric Operation – SIGNAL Magazine.