When I was a small girl growing up in the Wisconsin country-side I would spend long summer afternoons lying in the grass imagining shapes in the clouds high above me. The wonderful thing about a child’s imagination is that a cloud can take on any form, from a unicorn to an elephant to…a data center.
I had no way of knowing then that the term “cloud” or the idiom “to the cloud!” would become such a ubiquitous phrase in my adult work-life as it was in my childhood days gazing at the sky.
Cloud computing is not new. It is not a panacea; it w