socialmedian: Can We Please Define Cloud Computing?

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Aug 19, 2008

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Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles pop up on my feeds and in my reading lists talking about the evils of cloud computing and several damnations of the term as being strictly something from the marketing department. For some reason surpassing understanding, the term has become the next “skunk drunk kool-aid” whipping boy, and many folks seem to want to inflate their credibility by attempting to deflate the cycle of hype before it even begins.

I’ll not focus on the annoying tendency of some other technology pundits to attempt to appear more intelligent than they really are by trying to predict the death or fakeness [insert buzzword here]. I’m not saying that the pundits I cite in this article are those folks, but very often there are those who don’t understand what the term they rail against means, and the irony is they are using the technology they decry to distribute their message.

Aside from that, two articles have popped into my reader today that talk about this. One is by my esteemed collegue here at Mashable, Steven Hodson on his blog WinExtra, an

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