Fwd: VCL in Slashdot this morning

[Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org>]

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> From: Paul Jones <pj...@metalab.unc.edu>
> Date: October 25, 2008 9:04:55 AM EDT
> To: Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org>
> Cc: Aaron Peeler <aa...@ncsu.edu>, josh_thompson@ncsu.edu, andy_kurth@ncsu.edu 
> , Mladen Vouk <vo...@ncsu.edu>, john_bass@ncsu.edu,  
> eric_sills@ncsu.edu, matt@ncstate.net, thorpe@mcnc.org, chase@cs.duke.edu 
> , dls@ibiblio.org, ken@iblio.org, bmbouter@us.ibm.com,  
> jsavage@gmu.edu, feng@cs.vt.edu, mkg@vt.edu
> Subject: VCL in Slashdot this morning
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/24/2335216
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> The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education
> Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 24, @10:01PM
> from the more-indoor-classes? dept.
> The Internet Technology
>
> g8orade points out two recent articles in The Economist about the  
> rise of
> cloud computing. The first discusses how software-as-a-service has  
> come to
> pervade online interactions. "Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a technology
> visionary at IBM, compares cloud computing to the Cambrian explosion  
> some
> 500m years ago when the rate of evolution sped up, in part because the
> cell had been perfected and standardised, allowing evolution to  
> build more
> complex organisms." The next article examines how the cloud will  
> force a
> "trade-off between sovereignty and efficiency." Reader pjones  
> contributes
> news that the Virtual Computer Lab will be supplementing more  
> traditional
> computer labs at North Carolina State University, and adds, "NCSU's
> Virtual Computing Lab and IBM are offering the VCL code as a software
> 'appliance' for use in schools to link to the program. Downloads are
> available at ibiblio at UNC-Chapel Hill. The VCL also is partnering  
> with
> Apache.org to make the software available and to allow further  
> community
> participation in future development."
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