Has 'cloud-computing' lost its VC luster?
Found on CNet News on Friday, 06 March 2009
It seems that just about every pitch these days is for "cloud computing", and the folks with the money are getting a little weary of it.
The plethora of storage businesses are a great example of what I am talking about; if you read closely, there are actually a variety of products and services being offered under that moniker among the participants. Thus, defining yourself as Storage-as-a-Service or "cloud storage" may just not be enough any more.
Clouds are the next Web 2.0. It's nothing but another hyped dot-com bubble that eventually will pop.