A new cloud-oriented startup came out of stealth mode today, changing its name from the inscrutable VMOps to the much friendly, if 2001-ish Cloud.com in the process. While it isn’t really a Java story the way VMForce and WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option are, Cloud.com does have a genealogical relationship with Java, as The Register details.Sheng Liang, Cloud.com’s founder and CEO, is an ex-Sun employee and the lead developer for Sun’s JVM. Also on board are Peder Ulander and Kevin Kluge, who also have history at Sun and with Java. As The Register notes, they were part of the Sun group that worked on that company’s abortive cloud play; but it seems to me that there’s more than a little overlap between Java and virtualization. Abstraction is essentially the story of all modern computing; Java represents one form of abstraction and cloud computing another, and the question is whether the two shall ever meet.By the way, if you’re wondering how a little startup managed to get a hold of the no doubt incredibly lucrative cloud.com domain name, well, that’s a pretty interesting story in itself. Cloud Computing