“… 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.