If you asked ten random techies to define "cloud computing," you might get twelve or thirteen different answers, but if instead you asked those same ten folks to identify the most overused buzzword of the last year, they'd probably all agree that "cloud computing" was it. Truly, "the cloud" is aptly named, because everyone who stares at the concept sees something a little different. So imagine my surprise when, on attending a session at this past summer's AlwaysOn conference, I heard someone on the stage talk intelligently, coherently, and technically about a topic that I had written off as so much noise.
That person was HP's Russ Daniels, CTO and VP of Cloud Services Strategy, and by the time his panel was done, I knew that I had to talk to him in more detail about cloud computing. I managed to land an interview with him a few weeks ago, and it was so good that I've reproduced it (in slightly edited form) in this article. The interview is extremely substantial, so if you're at all interested in the cloud—especially if you're a skeptic—I urge you to dive in.
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