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:Why 'Cloud Computing' Is For the Birds
Why 'Cloud Computing' Is For the Birds
Aug 18, 2008, 16 :31 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (4094 reads)

(Other stories by Mike Elgan)

"As companies get excited about, grow comfortable with and ultimately embrace what they think is the shiny new world of "cloud computing," everything becomes less reliable. A single Web page, for example, might be built out of several "cloud" components -- one company providing storage, another applications and still another site metering. If anything breaks, everything breaks. Cloud computing simply increases the number of things that can go wrong."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
" (Of course, that lack of access was my ...   Brownie points   
Evan
Aug 18, 2008, 19:06:46
 
"In other words, the "cloud" in "cloud c ...   Hmm...   
alan
Aug 18, 2008, 19:43:40
 
Cloud computing makes sense for the corp ...   Incorrect!!   
paul
Aug 19, 2008, 00:23:22
 
> "In other words, the "cloud" in "cloud ...   Re: Hmm...   
blackhole
Aug 19, 2008, 12:17:08
 
I agree, personal clouds are very useful ...   Re: Incorrect!!   
Fred Williams
Aug 19, 2008, 13:00:34
 
> I agree, personal clouds are very usef ...   Re: Re: Incorrect!!   
blackhole
Aug 20, 2008, 04:25:31
 
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