With interest in cloud computing at an all-time high, we have to wonder if this concept is truly revolutionary or simply the logical next step of trends that started decades ago. As someone who’s been in the industry for awhile, I can remember a time when even a technology-dependent institution like NASA simply didn’t have the processing power it required for all the complex calculations needed for the early days of the U.S. space program. It had to borrow this processing power from local universities...