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Story: Dell loses 'cloud computing' trademark bid

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Not even THAT is the cloud

I agree with teh overall sentiment of what you say, but I dispute even your definition of cloud.

I was drawing clouds 20 odd years ago in SNA networks that also had terminals (3270 & 5250) and mainframes (3090s & AS/400 - OK, a midrange but kind of the same thing) in them; the cloud was how you connected them if is used a transport outside of your SNA of Token Ring network (or ethernet if we are drawing the same diagram for DEC equipment). Back then, the cloud was mainly an X.25 network.

Shoot forward 20 years and the terminals are web browsers, I agree, but the mainframes are now ASP/SaaS provider's datacentres. the cloud is JUST the internet.

The only reason datacentres are being put in the cloud is so the people who run them have a whole raft of excuses if their service levels are poor, as Google's, Amazon's, GoToMeeting's and Salesforce.com's have been at various times.

Ian Hendry
WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

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