John Bace, a research analyst at the Gartner Group, had just finished a presentation for a corporate client. Discussion shifted to the company’s data storage, and the client’s CIO mentioned he planned on moving much of that data to “the cloud.”
The general counsel looked across the table and asked him what he meant. He answered that the cloud is a virtual storage facility, existing out there on the Internet rather than in a back office filled with servers and other software.
