On Monday (5/2/10) Mike Q and I recorded a podcast titled Cloud Computing Technologies. The podcast references a couple of Infoworld.com documents that I think you will find interesting:

• A short white paper written by Eric Knorr and Galen Gruman titled What does Cloud Computing Really Mean
• A 21-page document titled Cloud Computing Deep Dive Report

This Deep Dive report breaks down cloud computing into 11 categories and goes into more detail than the shorter white paper. What's really interesting is the categories are different in each document. You can see where the confusion lies when it comes to defining what cloud computing is. Here's the 11 cloud technologies we discuss:

1. Storage-as-a -service
2. Database-as-a-service
3. Information-as-a-service
4. Process-as-a-service
5. Application-as-a-service (a .k .a . software-as-a-service)
6. Platform-as-a-service
7. Integration-as-a-service
8. Security-as-a-service
9. Management-/governance-as-a-service
10. Testing-as-a-service
11. Infrastructure-as-a-service

We also discuss the CloudCamp event (great places to get info and meet people involved in cloud technologies) we hosted at Springfield Technical Community College last month and how you can get information on CloudCamps in your area.