What is Cloud Computing? 10 Defining Points | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

I doubt anyone reading this blog would need this article, but it does reinforce some points.

What is Cloud Computing? 10 Defining Points | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog): "“Cloud Computing” is currently a marketing term. And that’s why I’m writing this; to divorce the use of Cloud Computing, the marketing term, from the use of Cloud Computing as an architectural idea. Marketing terms don’t have to conform to precise definition. They get used, then abused, then severely exploited and finally, as their bandwagon grinds to a halt, they get pitched onto the sorry stack of broken buzz words. That’s what happened to “eBusiness”, “Web Services”, “On Demand” and so on. Until the recession began in earnest Cloud Computing was a reasonably sane marketing term. That’s now changing because, in the minds of the IT audience, the cost of cloud computing is lower. That makes cloud the hype-word du jour."