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Keep Your Cloud, I'm a Customer Not a Consumer
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| The cloud hype is getting thicker and
| smellier every day. All the cloud
| excitement is coming from those who hope to
| profit from it, the vendors and breathless
| tech journalists who can't think of
| anything worthwhile to write about. They're
| working very hard to make it sound like a
| wonderful thing, a miracle of rare device
| that will transform life as we know it.
|
| In related news, Santa Claus, the Tooth
| Fairy, Sasquatch, Yeti, and Elvis are all
| throwing a fabulous party at Graceland and
| everyone is invited. If you don't live in
| Memphis they'll send a private jet to pick
| you up.
|
| The Cloud is Nonsense
|
| The problem with all this cloud nonsense is
| it's exactly that--nonsense. Hosted
| services are nothing new. What would be new
| and radical and transformative are
| attractive products reasonably-priced, and
| good customer service. Those are the
| missing pieces, and I predict they will
| always be the missing pieces. Because it
| seems that among the big players in tech,
| research and development are devoted
| entirely to inventing new buzzwords. If it
| weren't for the small independents we would
| have nowhere to turn.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2010/03/keep-your-cloud-1.html
Recent:
Microsoft Cloud Services Had 5 Hour Outage [UPDATE 2]
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| On the heels of my story about the Microsoft
| (MSFT) TechNet registration servers being down
| for five days, I received an email from a
| reader claiming that Microsoft Online Service,
| the current name for its cloud offerings, had
| a five hour outage. According to the tip, that
| included the hosted Exchange email service.
| This is clearly not the sort of thing
| corporations want to hear when considering who
| to trust going forward in cloud computing.
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http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005011/microsoft-rumor-cloud-services-had-5-hour-outage/
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