Clueless CIO cloud confusion continues

You have got to be kidding me. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the research company’s annual enterprise IT conference, Gartner vice president David Mitchell Smith said, "In many ways we’re nowhere nearer understanding what cloud is." Oh, come on!The year is 2016, but Smith continued, "There are still a lot of gray areas and blurriness in the cloud business.” He thinks 80% of vendors’ “private clouds” aren’t strictly speaking cloud, along with 30% of publ