Cloud Computing - Going by the predictions

Cloud computing has been the proverbial gold pot at the end of the rainbow all these years. Coming at us in several avatars over the last decade as grid computing, high performance computing, network computing, cloud computing looks to be finally coming of age based on the hype levels, the activity levels both among start-ups and mature industry players and the maturity of services that are needed for a cloud story to really take shape.

Gartner list cloud computing as one of the key 2011 strategic technologies to keep tabs on. While there are a lot of wrinkles that need to be ironed out, it also has provided an opportunity niche startups to take roots and attempt solving these open issues to ensure widespread and smoother adoption and consequent realization of the true potential of cloud computing.

 Over the next series of posts, I aim to discover the cloud computing arena along with my readers and "uncloud the cloud"