Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Why is "The Cloud" still unclear?

After more than five years of using the term "The Cloud", technology vendors, resellers, service providers, analysts, and IT professionals still use inconsistent definitions for cloud computing (i.e. "The Cloud").  There are plenty of reasons for this lack of consistency, but the end result is confusion for many organizations seeking the benefits of cloud computing. The intent of this post is to break down cloud computing into manageable segments to provide leaders of organizations (business, education, government, etc.) a foundation to converse with IT staff, consultants and vendors on potential cloud solutions.


Establishing a Cloud Foundation

To explain cloud computing I'll use simplified definitions