My Cloud Intro

Cloud Computing has been one of the hottest trends in IT to a point that we can already see mentions to it on mass media ads.

It can be seen as a consequence of both technical advances and newer problems that have risen from the so-called bigger trend Web 2.0.

As a trend, it is not alone, it is entangled with other trends like Virtualization, which attacks directly some IT management problems when you are dealing with large scale installations; and NOSQL (Not Only SQL) which tries to solve some of the programmers problems that rise from the kind of application that run on this kind of environment.

On the other side, Cloud Computing can be criticized as a relabel of the now-seems-dead Grid Computing trend, which some years ago was represented by a large number of product anouncements, an little real market significance. I do not think so, as Grid was mainly driven by major IT solutions providers like Oracle, but on the opposite Cloud has been driven, first by the needs of huge applications, like Google, Amazon and more recently by huge social sites like Facebook and Digg.

As we can see from this wider picture quickly presented above there are a lot of hot topics to address from different perspectives: IT administration, web 2.0 programmer and so on. And this is the idea of this blog. Let´s see where we can go.