Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Computing’

How do you explain cloud computing to people who buy into vendor hype?

May 1, 2010

“… a lot of things you will see will have cloud annotations. Why not? When something is not clearly defined and mostly misunderstood, it becomes one of god’s great gifts to marketers.”  – John M Willis

“We’re marching out yesterday’s services as cloud services…it ends up blurring the lines and making adoption very difficult,” – Hamid Ouyachi, Labor Department chief technology officer.

The term “cloud computing” is so ridiculously overly used, and no pun intended - very nebulous. Marketing folks have had a field day with this buzz word, they have twisted the definition beyond repair – this in return makes it very hard to talk with certain folks about cloud computing.


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