While my previous posts equated Cloud with OSI and Cloud as a marketing term, the fact of the matter is, Cloud is “at market”. Meaning, Cloud computing is a term that I may define as one thing, someone else may define it as something totally different.
My definition of cloud really depends on what we’re discussing. I don’t think any one answer is an absolute but I do believe that given the nature of the discussion and the esoteric abstractions that occur as a result, no one is fully qualified to define it, including me.
So for me, Cloud Computing is about what’s being delivered and how it’s being delivered. Who is delivering it, is irrelevant. Just because a company say the deliver cloud computing or cloud-based computing, doesn’t necessarily make it so. But what the consumer gets, whether it’s a web application like Salesforce or Autotask, or XaaS (X = anything you can think of), then it’s sort of a “cloud” to them. And that’s my principal point.
Whether via the internet, a corporate network or from home, it’s all the same to the consumer. As long as they have what they expect in a service, application, etc.
Once again, my perspective.
