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    The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.

    http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,5466,00.html

    The Cloud is a term that borrows from telephony. Up to the 1990s, data circuits (including those that carried Internet traffic) were hard-wired between ...

    Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over ...

     

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    Data Portability for Good

    10/28/2009 Michaela Hackner and Sandy Smith, Forum One Communications for NTEN http://nten.org/blog/2009/10/28/data-portability-good   ...

    Terabytes Missing From The National Archives: Would the Cloud Be Safer?   Written by Steven Walling / July 6, 2009 7:00 AM ...

    Leading social change with a network mindset The revolution in communications technology — from social networking tools to conference call systems, blogs and wikis — ...

    Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing
    October 20, 2009  by Stephen Shankland, cnet.com
    ORLANDO, Fla.--Cloud computing isn't going to
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    Of all the People & Organizations involved with Cloud Computing, who knows most? What are the best contacts for people just starting out on this topic?

     

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