I recently got more often used about cloud computing and what my take on it is. So far I have not had time to write up my view but I can share at least my reading list on the topic:
Hayes, B. 2008. Cloud computing. Commun. ACM 51, 7 (Jul. 2008), 9-11. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1364782.1364786
Vaquero, L. M., Rodero-Merino, L., Caceres, J., and Lindner, M. 2008. A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 39, 1 (Dec. 2008), 50-55. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1496091.1496100
John Viega, „Cloud Computing and the Common Man,“ Computer, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 106-108, Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MC.2009.252
Lin, G., Fu, D., Zhu, J., and Dasmalchi, G. 2009. Cloud Computing: IT as a Service. IT Professional 11, 2 (Mar. 2009), 10-13. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.22
Voas, J. and Zhang, J. 2009. Cloud Computing: New Wine or Just a New Bottle?. IT Professional 11, 2 (Mar. 2009), 15-17. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.23
Grossman, R. L. 2009. The Case for Cloud Computing. IT Professional 11, 2 (Mar. 2009), 23-27. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.40
Weinhardt, C., Anandasivam, A., Blau, B., and Stößer, J. 2009. Business Models in the Service World. IT Professional 11, 2 (Mar. 2009), 28-33. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.21
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Andy Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. 2009. UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory. http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/publication/285