Ontologies are Fun.


As usual, relatively early (but not too early) in the lifecycle of a technology, there is a plethora of terms that is created to describe each individual vendor's category. This ratatouille of terms needs to be sorted out so that we can better understand what is what. Groupings are formed, complex ontologies are sketched and simpler ontologies are created.

This is where we are with Cloud Computing. On The Wisdom of Clouds, two such ontologies are drawn. The UCSB is simpler, the more complex from Hoff possibly more useful.

Here they are:





I wonder if the former misses two boxes that have been interesting to me:




The importance of each of these concepts is that adoption to cloud computing will be dependent on the ease-of-management, security, governance, and integratability of the cloud services.

More on how to get on the cloud easily later.