By Lori MacVittie (F5)

Kicking of the new year (and a new decade) with a lively debate on a
technological concept that is barely out of its infancy is always a
good thing. Fred Cummins over at HP recently penned “Pursuit of the Intercloud is Premature”
and caught the eye of several of us for whom Intercloud is near and
dear and, I think, provided a great way to start off the year by
declaring the concept of Intercloud “not yet worthy of concern”. 

If this elastic mesh is provided by a single cloud provider, then it is
simply a different spin on cloud computing.  If it is a mesh of
independent cloud providers, sharing workloads, then it is a vision
that is not worth concern within the next decade. [emphasis added]