Romanticizing cloud computing will destroy it
InfoWorld’s new cloud computing blog seeks to promote a clear-eyed definition so the sustainable cloud can form
6,480,000. That’s the number of results from a Google search for “cloud computing.”
Searching for “software as a service” returns 4,260,000. “Grid computing,” 2,840,000. “Application service provider,” 969,000. Remember those guys? We’ve been through this before.
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George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I hate to break it to you, but cloud computing is not going to cure everything from datacenter sprawl to diminishing budgets.
cloud/klowd/ n. & v. n. 1 a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere high above the general level of the ground.
cloud computing /klowd kompyŏŏting/ n. 1 the most ill-defined technology in history.
