It’s time: Out with ‘cloud,’ in with computing

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Cloud computing is about 10 years old. We’re not talking the technology — that’s decades old — but the term "cloud computing" itself. When it got a name, the cloud became a real phenomenon, and after all this time, it’s gone from being the enfant terrible of enterprise computing to the assumed platform for new enterprise computing. That change was clear at this week’s AWS Re:Invent cloud show.

Although computing as a service — what we call the cloud — remains an evolving notion, it is now fundamental to pretty much everything. Whether you’re thinking Internet of things, big data, mobile computing, or gaming, they are all affected by the use of public and private cloud services. In fact, cloud computing as a concept is systemic to most of what we do in the world of computing these days…

But if everything is a cloud, then nothing is a cloud, and that may be the next phase of this shift. Practically everybody — not only Amazon Web Services, which got all the attention this week — is a public cloud provider. Likewise, all the features that make a cloud a cloud — elasticity, self-provisioning, tenancy, and usage-based cost — are now common even in enterprise data centers…

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