Adaptovate

One of the most common misunderstandings in just about any client I have is that Cloud Computing is simply a rebranding of Application Service Providers. At a very high level I suppose that it addresses a similar set of problems, however for the most part this is where the comparison ends. For the people that were not playing around with Application Service Providers in 2000, it was simply where a company provided an application to clients to use, where the application and hardware to run the application was hosted by the company providing the service. So things like Email services using Microsoft Exchange, or SAP, or some large application was installed on a set of servers at the companies site, and the client paid rent to use this application. The idea was great, clients got a running application, however they did not need to capitalise all of the hardware and procure the software, then simply signed an rental/lease agreement to use the service. The biggest problem was the eco...