In 2001 a couple of my roomates where interns at IBM and worked on "grid" projects (which is a lost cousin of the cloud/utility/aaS family). One of them remar

In 2001 a couple of my roomates where interns at IBM and worked on "grid" projects (which is a lost cousin of the cloud/utility/aaS family). One of them remarked how every time they had a meeting with multiple suits, and someone had to whiteboard what they were talking about, the internet was always a cloud. Like there was some unwritten rule passed on in oral visio training lore that the internet is a cloud. Whenever I hear 'cloud computing' I know exactly what people mean. Its that fuzzy overlap zone between outsourcing and the internet that exists in management/executives mind as a code phrase for "someone elses problem".