Detailed Questions Hit the Cloud

American humorist Mark Twain is credited with observing that “history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” More than a century after his death, Twain´s aphorism might indeed hold true about the latest technological wave to hit computing - the cloud. For the concept of the cloud to work, of course, the prevailing principle of any-to-any, end-to-end interoperability must be extended from the principles of the Internet´s architecture, and even communications networks that predated packet-based exchange, according to cloud veteran David Bernstein.