Even in mainstream news these days you here about cloud computing and how it will change the world.  Yet really, what is cloud?

The whole topic reminds me of a discussion I led in college.  I asked the group how many people at the start of discussion how many of them were feminists.  Very very few raised their hands.  Fine.  I then asked each person to define what a feminist was.  We then read out and discussed those definitions.  Like defining cloud, they were all over the map.  We finally decided on a definition of feminist as someone who believes in equal rights for women and men.  Armed with this definition we polled ourselves again on what is a feminist.  The result?  Almost every hand was raised.

I believe it’s the same with cloud.

The fact is, cloud computing is used by everyone on the internet every day.  It is in fact the Internet itself – a group of remotely accessibly computing resources.

Glad we got that out of the way.