The cloud is a marketing buzzword. You can determine a lot for a product by who is pushing for it - it was coined and promoted by the big corporations that had

The cloud is a marketing buzzword. You can determine a lot for a product by who is pushing for it - it was coined and promoted by the big corporations that had resources to spare and sell them with a 3-400% markup http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/building-servers-for-fun-and-prof-ok-maybe-just-for-fun.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/building-servers-fo... While I see the value in making things more flexible and cheap like the open compute initiative, my cynicism has taught me to assume every time that what is heavily promoted this way by a entity that tries to position itself as the middleman - it may not be bad for you, but it rarely will be the best for you. How many people think twice before handing sensitive info to google after the David Petraeus situation. The cloud infrastructure is just a tool - it has its limited uses, its gotcha-s etc. It is good for prototyping, rapid deployment but after that - not so sure.