As cloud computing has become the silver bullet du jour, we suddenly are faced with two simultaneous and equally dangerous phenomena: “Everything is Cloud” and its evil twin, “Cloud is Everything.”
The solution to both of these phenomena is to take a lesson from the old Rolling Stones song and kick some initiatives and concepts off of the cloud.
First, let’s address the notion that Everything is Cloud, or, as a recent GCN article put it, “agencies are becoming more cloudlike.” I recently read an article on the “Cancer Knowledge Cloud” sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. It is a grid computing initiative called caBIG, rebranded as a cloud offering.
http://gcn.com/articles/2010/07/12/daconta-bursting-the-cloud-bubble.aspx
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