ReadWriteWeb has a good article on cloud computing today.
The first, Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds, is written the Amazon Web Services outage last Friday fresh in our minds. I'm a big proponent of cloud computing as it's the only way in my opinion to truly scale large data driven applications such as search which is what I'm working on.
"So is it really true - is cloud computing a bad idea? Of course not. It is a wonderful, powerful idea. In this post, we explore the ideas behind cloud computing and argue that it will be an integral part of our future."
"Do Clouds Really Work?You bet! The best example is Google. The king of the web is reigning with a farm of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of boxes. To race along with the web, Google constantly increases the size of its cloud, incorporating new web sites, and expanding its index.
Of course, Google isn't the only one operating in a cloud. All major web players including Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! and Facebook are running some sort of massive computing cloud."