The "question de jour" on on ebizQ's Cloud Computing forum was "What Improvements Would You Like to See With Cloud Computing?". Answers varied from "portability" to "security" to "standardization" to "privacy".
Yes, I agree, all of the above are challenges with Cloud Computing today. However, I am going to make a different wish...
Honesty
Truly, everything is not a cloud. We've seen this with SOA where everyone wanted a piece of the SOA action, so vendors started putting "XML interfaces" on their "objects" and renamed them "services". All of a sudden, SOA "did not perform" became a widespread belief. Let's not repeat that story with clouds. Virtualization is not Cloud Computing. Hosting a software application remotely such that "everyone can access it" is not Cloud Computing.
Can we be honest for a change?
* Originally posted on the ebizQ Cloud Computing forum on October 26, 2010.
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