It is hottest buzzword in town - from superweight IT firms to hosting companies, from CTOs to start-up entrepreneurs. All of sudden, everyone is talking about their service is offered from a Cloud architecture as if they were hosted previously underground.
So after diffusing all the fuzz from marketing brochures, what is my understanding of Cloud in today's IT service industry?
1) You gotta have a broadband connection to enjoy the fruit;
2) You submit a input to and receive a desirable from you-don't-know-what-or-how service over the Internet;
3) Your typical desktop applications are now offered from the Cloud - i.e. without an Internet connection, your laptop or PC is pretty much business function free;
4) your typical desktop functions like hard drive storage is now offered from the Cloud - e.g. dropbox;
Want to build a business into this hot buzzword? Just try to convert an application into a web service run over HTTP/HTTPS, that otherwise would have been installed and running on your PC.
