Will The Cloud Ever Stop Being The Cloud?
January 3, 2013
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Robert Shaw.
Cloud computing wasn’t always cloud computing. Depending on who you ask, first it was either time sharing or grid computing. Strangely, nobody actually claims to know how cloud computing got its name. To this day, no one claims credit for coining the phrase. (Maybe I shouldn’t have said that…)
The phrase “cloud computing” is rather poetic for a field that’s not known for its literary devices. It’s certainly not typical of utilitarian terms like social networking, Internet, voice over IP, and distributed computing.Perhaps that’s why marketing pros love it so much — and why it grates on so many old-school IT pros…
Cloud computing may be here to stay, but I do still hold out hope that “as-a-service” will go the way of the dodo. How I hate that term. Recently, I’ve seen such monstrosities as TEaaS (test environment as a service) and SECaas (security as a service). (You really have to be careful about saying that last one fast)…
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