Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

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It's basically the same pattern . . .

It's basically the same pattern I've seen all the time: New technology comes around, people clamor over it and predict it will replace the "old" tech, the old tech ends up being better than the new tech in some ways, and they end up side by side rather than as a complete replacement.

Cloud based computing will always be good at some things and bad at others.

-Downtime is unpredictable. I'd rather have 5 hours of downtime while the employees are asleep at night than 10 minutes of downtime while they are at work. It's debatable whether more downtime is really better if it's happening while people are work.

-For real time stuff, local is always better than cloud based. There's always latency, even with a lot of bandwidth.

-There's always the occasional application that really would never benefit from being put into the cloud. Not all of the applications we use are gonna benefit from being on a network or having information shared with other people.

I think there's too much of the "one size fits all" mentality with cloud stuff. No, one size does not fit all, and no, it doesn't make sense to pretend that the cloud is going to make everything better.

Posted by: CobraA1   Posted on: 08/10/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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