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JOURNAL OF OBJECT TECHNOLOGY Online at http://www.jot.fm. Published by ETH Zurich, Chair of Software Engineering ©JOT, 2009 Vol. 8, No. 1, January-February 2009 Cloud Computing: Today and Tomorrow Won Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, S. Korea Abstract During the past few years, cloud computing has become a key IT buzzword. Although the definition of cloud computing is still “cloudy”, the trade press and bloggers label many vendors as cloud computing vendors, and report on their services and issues. Cloud computing is in its infancy in terms of market adoption. However, it is a key IT megatrend that will take root. This article reviews its definition and status, adoption issues, and provides a glimpse of its future and discusses technical issues that are expected to be addressed. 1 STATUS Perhaps the simplest working definition of cloud computing is “being able to access files, data, programs and 3rd party services from a Web browser via the Internet that are hosted by a 3rd party provider”[Hodson08] and “paying only for the computing resources and services used”. Often cloud computing is used synonymously, inaccurately in my view, with such terms as utility computing (or on-demand computing), software as a service (SaaS), and grid computing. Of these, as I will show below, utility computing and SaaS are merely two of several forms of service cloud computing can provide. Grid computing is simply one type of underlying technologies for implementing cloud computing. The term “cloud” in cloud computing is used synomously with “data center”. Today the computing field is able to envision transitioning into