June 30, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Don't forget, the low-paid flunky at the cloud vendor doesn't own stock in YOUR company.
He has no loyalty to anyone working at your company.
But he might want to make a few bucks selling copies of your company's data.
One sysadmin mistake and your data is explosed to all of their clients.
Or just lost.
You would be surprised how many times I've been consulting at a company and discovered that the organization's backups weren't any good and that the data was lost forever.
We're talking BIG companies.
Remember, "Cloud Computing" is just another way to say "Fog of Business".
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June 30, 2010 at 6:02 pm
david_wendelken (6/30/2010)
Don't forget, the low-paid flunky at the cloud vendor doesn't own stock in YOUR company.He has no loyalty to anyone working at your company.
But he might want to make a few bucks selling copies of your company's data.
One sysadmin mistake and your data is explosed to all of their clients.
Or just lost.
You would be surprised how many times I've been consulting at a company and discovered that the organization's backups weren't any good and that the data was lost forever.
We're talking BIG companies.
Remember, "Cloud Computing" is just another way to say "Fog of Business".
😎
I also like how we're being sold Cloud services as a utility. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but all the utilities I'm familiar with (electricity, water, sewage, gas, telephone) don't keep entire transactional histories of my customers, nor confidential documents, nor intellectual property, nor....and so on.
Not to mention, dealing with a utility can be frustrating when your service goes down or you have a billing complaint. The attitude is always "well, you can go somewhere else". Of course, there is nowhere else to go so what they are really saying is "you will take it up the backside and you will like it". Of course, we're already used to this treatment from software vendors anyway. My point is, marketing SaaS or The Cloud as a utility doesn't make me feel any better. Actually, it makes me feel worse.
James Stover, McDBA
June 30, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I like the idea of the cloud, but as a private, secured set of services inside my walls. Deploying to a cloud, without having to worry about a particular server, and having things scale across machines, would be nice.
we're not there yet, but close. The Parallel Data Warehouse edition is the first step, now we need to be able to install that, and add machines ourselves, as necesary.
July 2, 2010 at 4:50 am
The cloud might make sense from a financial sense, but from a security sense, it actually makes no sense at all. On a personal view, I will NEVER put my information in the cloud, I will NEVER use web pages that attempt to be applications to do stuff that I perform locally on my computer now. I count it a great day if I never open a web browser!
On a professional basis, I will use the tools that the company provides and perform the job in which they ask me to perform. If that involved downgrading my experience to working in web pages attempting to be applications, then that is what I must do. I just will not get excited about it nor will I really care about it at all.
James E. Freedle II
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