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A colleague of mine who curates a social media site on Cloud Computing once told me: “It’s getting harder and harder to find articles about cloud. People are writing about cloud-related technologies but not much about cloud computing.” This supports a saying we have in the office: “Cloud computing is computing.” For those of us who have been in the industry a while, it has been a quick and complete transition to using the cloud for just about everything—storage, email, virtual servers, you-name-it and you can find that it is done in the cloud. My young adult children who are software engineers don’t remember a time where they didn’t use cloud, for storage and for all their work and school projects. They don’t even use the word “cloud.” Cloud Computing is so ubiquitous, easy to use, and transparent, that it is becoming difficult to determine what is enabling all of this computing.