We recently migrated a company to a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008. Although they previously had an in-house server for file/print and accounting applications; their email, intranet and extranets were cloud based (hosted Exchange/BlackBerry/SharePoint). We moved them in-house. Their FTP server and Website are still hosted.
Why, if the "Cloud" is so hot, would we move their core systms off of it? I was interviewed for an article in Processor "Current Cloud Successes & Failures"
Our industry recently started using "Cloud Computing" / "In The Cloud" / "Cloud Based". I guess it is easier to explain than "Software as a Service" (SaaS). But before that we just called it "Hosted". Earlier the name was "Application Service Provider" (ASP). Take a ride in the way-back machine...we used to have "Service Bureaus" and "Time Sharing" mainframes.
As long has there has been "The Internet", technical drawings of data networks represent it as a "Cloud". It has always been represented as such since it is chaotic how bits & bytes get from one computer to another via multiple switches/routers/carriers/servers/etc. For that reason, it is impossible to guarantee the quality of services across the Internet. That will always be the challenge of the Cloud, no matter how fast your company's Internet connection.
By the way, I spent 7 years in (outsourced) enterprise IT. Not long ago my colleagues referred to computer programs as "cards" as in "IBM Punch Cards". We all remeber hanging chads in the 2000 presidential election.
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