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Just because you say it, doesn't make it so

"This is what the cloud delivers: hardened, high-performance, reliable infrastructure far superior to that of any single enterprise ? at an aggregate cost of ownership and operation far lower than those enterprises would collectively spend across hundreds or thousands of separate private infrastructures to achieve a much worse result."

Really? So all those enterprises don't mind that their support will be shared across many thousands of users, that their data is being kept by someone else, that if their connection goes down their business does too and they are linking the success of their company to the viability of a cloud company.

Have you used a cloud app lately? The ones that are slow, unresponsive and lack tons of features? Doesn't sound superior does it?

Or have you looked at real life examples? Try World of Warcraft around 13 million users running 24/7 with an app that's a few levels of complexity beyond your current cloud apps (due to it having a desk top client and being complex ;-)). It still crashes occasionally, their service still goes down, as does gmail and other cloud vendors. I think Blizzard does a great job with WoW, but it the end it's only a game. Do I want to trust my business to a cloud vendor where i'm just one of hundreds of thousands of clients - no I don't think so and I have no idea where you got this idea of cloud reliability - that's a very long way off.

Posted by: tonymcs@...   Posted on: 10/29/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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