Grid vs. Cloud – May 17, 2008

So much to blog ….Entry for April 19, 2008

By G C Network | May 18, 2008

When I started this yesterday, I had a list of about five things I wanted to say on this blog. I then decided on a strategy to list topics as…

Hello World ! – May 18, 2008

By G C Network | May 18, 2008

I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn’t see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere would matter to…

From Geva Perry’s April 25th blog

Cloud Computing overtaking the term Grid Computing

With the term “cloud computing” rapidly being hyped everywhere, I did this little exercise on Google Trends to see how it fares against its predecessor “grid computing”. Here’s the result — cloud is just about to overtake grid:

Cloudvsgrid_2

If we zoom in on cloud computing it looks like this:

Cloudtrend

We are at the very beginning of the hype-cycle, and not yet at the “peak of deflated expectations”. If it were a stock, I’d say BUY for now.”

For a slightly different view, here is software as a service (SaaS) versus cloud computing.

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1 Comments

  1. Anonymous on October 19, 2009 at 9:09 am

    Nice to see today's figures, about 1 and a half years after you wrote this article.

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=grid+computing%2C+cloud+computing&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0