I still think cloud is super buzzy. Private cloud is the top of buzz. Hosting, distributed processing, cycle sharing, VM....whatever you want to call it have all have been around for a long while. Most companies don't need this technology as it is presented today(except VM) and most won't use it. I think we can talk about it until we are blue but generally it is not going to effect our jobs as DBAs. The issue has always been the connection from here to there and there to wherever. Really let's stop jumping on the buzzwagon. I just want to get Hadoop data into my PDW in the cloud from my surface. 😎