Rule 1 for migration to Cloud Computing – Get the definition right.

IT industry, like fashion industry, has an absolute Darwinian need for inventing (and then betting farm on) new trends. Cloud computing, with all it’s advantages and disadvantages, is on it’s way to become a must-play IT trend.

George Zachary of Charles River Venture, calls this a new dotcom. He should know, he must be getting business plans by the dozens. I won’t be surprised if half of those PowerPoint pitches are full of replace-all of ‘Web2.0/SaaS’ with ‘Cloud Computing’. If that transformation is not enough, then working demo of Salesforce, Facebook, Amazon S3 mashup will fill in for the necessary aha. There you have it – a fully compliant cloud computing app.

No sir I don’t understand what is Capacity-on-demand? I thought being able to store user mugshots on Amazon S3 was cloud computing? – No?

Head over to expert panel for more cloud(y) insights. We need cloud definition sooner than AIG needs bailout. Or before we hear $100 million venture fund dedicated for cloud computing investments.

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Also checkout Reuven Cohen‘s rant on the declining quality of cloud computing definition.