The Over-hyped Cloud
Here is a good article that nails in any over-hyped reverence on the term ‘cloud’, in the context of “bringing a process into the cloud”, or “cloud-computing” etc.
I quote a good phrase here “Conceptually, all the fancy cloud talk could be applied to anything a company does outside its walls. The toilet paper you purchase from an outside vendor effectively comes “from the cloud”…”
http://www.zdnetasia.com/why-the-cloud-doesn-t-matter-62204333.htm