There are times when a secondary meaning of a particular word surpasses the primary meaning, in terms of usage. “Cloud” is one such (buzz) word that has been in vogue lately, especially in Information Technology circles. While the broad definition of cloud connotes any infrastructure, platform, or application accessed over the Internet, the definition becomes more focused when we talk about enterprise IT. IT administrators in enterprises traditionally have been buried in requests for new servers, databases, and applications and have had little time to plan a consolidated infrastructure or a platform for providing those services. Lack of standardization ...
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