Cloud Computing overtaking the term Grid Computing

With the term "cloud computing" rapidly being hyped everywhere, I did this little exercise on Google Trends to see how it fares against its predecessor "grid computing". Here's the result -- cloud is just about to overtake grid:

If we zoom in on cloud computing it looks like this:

We are at the very beginning of the hype-cycle, and not yet at the "peak of deflated expectations". If it were a stock, I'd say BUY for now.

Comments

[Jason Meiers]

This is an interesting indicator. a lot of enterprise customers have understood the value of grid computing. especially with Google and IBM supporting small apps as well as enterprise business transactions in clouds.

[Jason Meiers]

This is an interesting indicator. a lot of enterprise customers have understood the value of grid computing. especially with Google and IBM supporting small apps as well as enterprise business transactions in clouds.