Year In Review: Jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon

2008 may have been a year of hype for cloud computing vendors announcing offerings of their own, and enterprise IT shops creating their private version. But, it wasn’t without security and privacy concerns from industry observers
Hype around cloud computing reached a peak in 2008, with numerous vendors embracing the technology and touting its benefits. Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Bar even coined the phrase “cloudbursting” to explain how cloud computing can be used to periodically manage an organization’s peak loads without actually putting the entire infrastructure to the cloud.
By: Kathleen Lau

Original post by Open Source Applications Foundation Blog