Is 'Cloud Computing' in Decade's future?

Since the advent of Web 2.0, all of the tech world has been buzzing about "cloud computing".

It seems every geek blogger I know has taken a stab a "clarifying the myths surrounding cloud computing"—so it seemed only fair that I should take my shot.

I am here to put a couple of myths to rest—here and now.

Cloud Computing was not—I repeat not—named for either Chief Red Cloud or Chief White Cloud. Shockingly, I discovered it was not named after any native American at all.

Cloud computing is a buzzword that attempts to simplify data centers by leveraging virtualization technologies to reduce complexity. This complexity is reduced by combining and reducing various environments.

Consumers of the "cloud" are more concerned with services it can perform than the underlying technologies used to achieve the requested function.

The tag tries to suggest that function comes from "the cloud"—an company intranet or the global Internet—rather than from a specific identifiable device.

Although related, cloud computing is not identical with the business model of software as a service or the usage model of utility computing. That is where most of the debate and confusion comes in.

Like other cutting-edge Microsoft partners, Decade Software will leverage the strengths of the cloud, but we'll wait until the storm settles first.