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“Now, that’s a knife…”

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Last week I focused (somewhat critically) on two cloud taxonomy/ontology proposals that had been kicking around, arguing that they both were neither taxonomy nor ontology, and in fact fell short of being very useful tools for categorizing, hence understanding, the organization of and relationships among the diverse entities in the cloud domain.  Well, I’m on [...]

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Cloud Burst

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Recently, ex-Cassatter (”Cassattian”? “Cassattite”?) turned Ciscoer (uh… Ciscoan?), always-blogger James Urquhart called attention to both the need and a couple of proposals for cloud computing taxonomies/ontologies.  ”That would be nice”, I thought, because taxonomies and ontologies can bring a lot of clarity and precision to an otherwise murky, poorly-specified picture.  After taking a look [...]

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