“Cloud Computing 2.0” — I’m Serious
June 29, 2014
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Roger Strukhoff.
I recently led a panel discussion for SYS-CON.TV on the topic of "Cloud Computing 2.0," a term I decided to employ just a few minutes before we started recording. A few years ago, any right-minded person would wince at the use of "2.0" to describe anything, as it had long become a meaningless cliché. So I don’t know if I was being ironic, too clever by half, or just tedious when I told the panelists that we’d go with the topic of Cloud Computing 2.0.
The Debate Evolves
My point was, and is, that the discussion about cloud computing has notably changed this year. Three years ago, the debate was how to define cloud, whether virtualization alone was enough to fit the definition, whether an on-site datacenter could even fit the definition of cloud, and to what degree the big-vendor latecomers were engaged in cloud washing…
A couple of years ago, the chief debate was over public vs. private cloud. Last year and into the start of 2014, I heard and read endless discussion of PaaS vs. IaaS, whether the former had simply become part of the latter, and so forth…
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