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Sunny Days with Cloud Computing By Dan Kusnetzky, Principal Analyst Sponsored by Stoneware, Inc. I N T R O D U C T I O N We’re all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about “cloud computing.” Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as “Mesh computing” or “Elastic Cloud Computing.” All of these terms really boil down to an old idea being implemented using new technology — advanced networking technology combined with sophisticated virtualization technology. In the past, suppliers used terms such as “service bureaus” or “application service providers” to put forward the idea that applications be rewritten using new tools and then have them hosted somewhere on the Internet or in the organization’s own datacenter. Other times, the real story is just making all of an organizations new applications Web- based so that it no long matters where the application is running or what type of client system is being used to access it. Some of the strongest and loudest proponents of this approach are suppliers of hosting serv