Much hype has been written about this new computing paradigm, leading to confusion and, in some instances, botched deployments.
While all that Karpovich’s colleague Floyd Strimling wants for Christmas is for the term "Cloud" to go away, he'll have to wait until 2013. In two to three years, what is now "cloud" just becomes IT again. This is good news. The ultimate evidence of a paradigm's success is that it goes away as a separate phenomenon and is just assumed.