As a summary of 2010, we should try to pull together what we have learned about cloud this year.
Everyone agrees “cloud computing” is overused as a term. Only the rare few now think of cloud as a big nothing. Far too many still think cloud is an over-hyped concept, more about marketing than actual technology.
Consumer cloud leads the way (from public cloud infrastructure, there's Facebook, Zynga, Gmail and more from Amazon's EC2 and similar services). That's because consumers already accept the security and privacy trade-offs that come with the Read more...