Jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said anew that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud bookkeeping is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the undertaking IT world — some of them really quite good. From the article: 'Cloud bookkeeping is...the practical version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud bookkeeping really is accessing effects and casework needed to perform functions with dynamically betterment needs. An form or service creator requests access from the cloud rather than a set endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)"

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