Cloud....if I never hear the term again ....
Cloud....if I never hear the term again it will be too soon....
Mostly, Cloud services are renamed business models that have been around for a long time. How many people host their own web sites? How many have shunned their our email servers for an outsourced one? Who uses CRM applications like Salesforce?
But in essence these are services that successfully lend themselves to being delivered via the internet (yes I know that there are intra-cloud etc).
What we dont need is more pseudo analysis on this. There is a lot of cloud that doesnt lend itself to being "Cloud" and putting everything under the one term doesnt help anyone. I wish the term would just FRIGGING die and we can talk about the specific tasks we want to solve rather than bundle everything under the completely nebulous term "cloud".
But on this topic nothing more gets more on my nerve then people asking "what's our cloud strategy?" which to me translates to "how do we on get the latest bandwagon so I sound cool without understanding anything what im trying to solve?."