Cloud, currently at the height of its hype, it will suffer a backlash before becoming fully mainstream and established, by which time a new phrase will have captured the imagination of IT pundits. Enterprises care about cloud computing because they need to adapt to the way it redefines how they relate to one another, their suppliers, their IT department and the IT assets they use.
Cloud computing as a term may have a use-by date, but the technical, operational, and commercial innovations behind it are here to stay. Read more