What the hell is cloud computing ?
The first common use of the Internet was essentially chat (IRC) and sharing homemade starwars scripts. Then came the world wide web and it was the world wide web that was static.
“The cloud” comes from the architecture notation of using a cloud to represent the internet. The use of the name is a nerdy in joke amongst web architects.
In technical discussions over the past 5 years the answer to the question
“where does [nameless feature] come from?” has been “the cloud”
What most people miss when thinking about the cloud is …
The people who don’t understand computers are in the majority and the cloud takes away all the pain of nerdy computer boffin nonsense such as “flexibility”, “cost reduction”, “Disaster Recovery”, “Scalability”, etc … these concepts are inaccessible and alien to the lay man. However many lay men are very creative have some good product ideas some of them are even good programmers.
When you put “it” on “the cloud” all the pain and trouble becomes an SEP (Someone Elses Problem)
This is why kids make facebook apps instead of java programs.
It is just more fun ! big organizations need to face up to this and work out how to commercialize their offering, with this new way of abstracting computer pain.
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