Could the cloud really become the network? That’s a question that many (including me) have asked over the last decade. When the view was “everything is moving to the cloud”, that would be an almost-inevitable outcome except for broadband access, but since I’ve rejected that universal-cloud theory from the first, and since I’ve reported that enterprises have also rejected it, the question is whether cloud attitude shifts would alter the idea that networking, at least in a WAN sense, ...
