Send in the clouds of efficiency

If you spend any time at all hanging out with IT/system admin types, you’ve no doubt heard the nebulous term “cloud,” as in: “Let’s store it on the cloud,” or “Steve really has his head in the cloud(s).”

I’m not making a derogatory statement about Steve; he really does have his head in one cloud in particular. His days are pretty much dominated with the migration of our in-house servers to that wonderful and mystical place somewhere on the Internet called “the cloud.”

Internet-based computing is really the most basic definition of the cloud. Even though “cloud computing”…