I’ll keep it simple then:
We’ve always had some amount of “someone else’s computer”. The industry definition is that Cloud Computing is about a platform, not about someone else’s computers or data centers. That platform back in the early days wasn’t as automated, but still was a platform where you paid someone else to deal with the nitty gritty of running a datacenter.
I was at a conference last year when a PHB type mentioned that she was not comfortable with “The Cloud” because the data is just “Out there”. Many folks in the room chuckled. That’s what I’m talking about.
So, Cory’s usage of the term doesn’t mean, “stored in a cloud provider” it just means, “someone else’s data center”. And to be fair, we don’t know for a fact that the data isn’t stored on a server under some Dev’s desk, or in a disused closet somewhere. Cloud indeed. I literally have seen software distribution systems where it really was just on a box under a guy’s desk.
