On Thursday, 07 June, 2012 12:52, Owen DeLong observed:
This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define "Cloud", you will get at least 100 definitions many of which are incompatible to the point of mutually exclusive.
That is *the* definition of "Cloud". The term "Cloud" is a proxy for the expression "under the exclusive control of a third-party over which we have no influence nor control in order to gain plausibile denibility and CYA ptotection if something bad happens". Eg: Store you data "in the cloud". Run a server "in the cloud". Put your e-mail "in the cloud". Run your application "in the cloud". See, 100% accurate! --- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org