I was talking to a friend yesterday about this very topic – he asked me what it was – and then I read a post on ZDnet that I thought was going to tell me the answer. Here’s the post: What’s Cloud Computing and What’s Not? However, the post just told me there was a lot of debate about the issue and that a task force was working towards a definitive definition. Not much use, so I thought I would add to the corpus of articles and definitions by publishing my (Emissary’s) definition of Cloud Computing.

Please people – you watch the news about identity theft and discuss it in your local pub, bar, restaurant or book club, but as soon as one of these “games” appears in your social network you happilly divulge all your inner secrets. So, when your identiy is stolen, your bank account emptied and your credit cards maxed out, please remember your identity wasn’t stolen – you gave it away.