[ Cloud Computing ] Re: "Cloud Computing" is Buzzword of the Year (Ars Technica)

Greg Pfister wrote:

See http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ars-awards-2008.ars/3  Typical extracted quotes: ***** Everywhere you turned, it was "cloud" this and "cloud" that, and often it was difficult to discern precisely what a given pundit or booster meant by the term. ... at this point the cloud seems to be the kind of thing that you just stare at until it starts to look like something familiar—we see a rocket, you see a pony. But whatever you take the cloud to be, it's hard to deny that 2008 truly was its year. ... while it's ferociously hard to see into 2009, it is nonetheless quite clear that there are clouds ahead. *****  Greg Pfister, who is recalling some of the past attempts in these environs to define "cloud computing." You see a duckie...    

Joni Mitchell, the well know industry pundit, captured this quite well:

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all.

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