Get Your SaaS Off My Cloud

It seems the phrase "in the cloud," sadly, has become a marketing-hyped euphemism for "the Internet." I say sadly because the use of cloud to refer to every and any service delivered over the Internet dirties up the cloud. It obscures the intent of cloud computing and makes it difficult for technologists in the trenches to get a handle on how cloud – both external and internal – can provide benefits and solutions to problems they have right now. The very loose use of the term means that every last little web application on the web could be (and sometimes is) called "cloud computing".

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