'K-cloud' makes a start
Conference "The Clouds 2009" on July 8 - Discussion on standardization policy

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI, President Park Young-seo) will hold a conference "The Clouds 2009" in cooperation with Korea Cloud Service Association, Korea IT Service Industry Association, Cloud Computing Forum, and The Electronic Times at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel Seoul on July 8.

The conference's aim is to gather, analyze and propagate the technological information related with Cloud Computing, research and analyze the latency information of Cloud Computing and support new policy for Government as well. More than 500 attendants include computing analysts and participants interested in cloud service.

The sailing ceremony of 'Cloud Computing Forum' will also be held as the first step of K-cloud on the same day. This forum, in which KISTI and Association of Next Generation computing Industry, and others are participated, plans to conduct standardization policy researches on Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing is one of the most promising IT concepts, which is when users run software over the internet and access it via a browser. It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.
The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.