[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei
Hung for this link. ]
“Cloud computing is supposed to save you money and make
things easier for your business/organization. If a self-proclaimed
cloud computing provider tries to sell you some expensive and fancy
new technology that requires a lot of training on your employees,
then be alerted that this may just be a hoax. Try partially
replacing MS Word and Frontpage with wiki before buying any cloud
solutions. Wiki is a minuscule, and yet most used form of cloud
computing. It takes more cultural changes than monetary investment
to introduce cloud computing into your organization/business. You
can forget about cloud computing if your employees cannot get
accustomed to this new culture of transparency, participation, and
democracy.“1. Transparency is Required to Enjoy the Benefits of Cloud
“Computing
“Cloud computing is about having someone out there taking care
of your computing needs for your business/organization. Take word
processing, the ubiquitous computing task in all offices, for
example. You and some officemates would like to be able to use each
of your Microsoft Word smoothly. You would like someone else to
take care of such troubles as crashes, software upgrades, backups,
viruses and other malware. You might even want him/her to take care
of hardware upgrades and power consumptions. The ICT department may
have already been sending people to help you with the above issues
all the time.”