> Cloud is not just about where things are – it's about the idea that you can outsource every single piece of responsibility to a intangible vendor somewhere in the cloud.
I've never heard of a definition of cloud like that.
Cloud is entirely about where things are.
Outsourcing responsibility to a vendor is totally orthogonal to the idea of the cloud. You can outsource responsibility in the cloud or not. You can also outsource responsibility on local machines or not.
And outsourcing responsibility has existed since long before the concept of the cloud was invented.
The product affected here is litelarly called "CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security". Meraki all tough they sell routers and switches markets their products as "cloud-based network platform". Jamf all tough their product is run on endpoint devices is marked as "Jamf Cloud MDM". I think its fair to say that cloud these days does not only mean storing data, or running servers in cloud but also if infrastructure is in any way MANAGED in cloud.
So to tie back to what i wrote earlier – none of these services has to have the management part in the cloud. They could just give you a piece of software to run on your own server. That would certainly distribute the risk since now it only takes someone hacking the vendor to go after all their customers, or in this case one faulty update brakes all users experience. And as far as I can see it seems we are willing to take those risks because we think it's nice having someone else manage the infrastructure (and that was my main point in the first comment).
I've never heard of a definition of cloud like that.
Cloud is entirely about where things are.
Outsourcing responsibility to a vendor is totally orthogonal to the idea of the cloud. You can outsource responsibility in the cloud or not. You can also outsource responsibility on local machines or not.
And outsourcing responsibility has existed since long before the concept of the cloud was invented.
It's important to keep definitions clear.