Steve Ballmer and Cloud Computing

In this video Steve Ballmer shares some views on Cloud Computing and helps shed some light on why what we have now in most data centers is not really “cloud” computing in the technical sense.

I think we all need to be ready to use the term two ways. When talking to users and non-technical types we will probably always hear the term used to refer to anything that occurs in a different location, and this is the simplest definition of the term. In that context, almost everything we have now is in “the cloud”. But when we technologists use the term we are primarily talking about architectures specifically designed to support large scale, distributed, replicatable computing that is normally outside the “firewall.”