The five defining characteristics of cloud computing

The five REAL characteristics:: 1. Fuzzily designed marketing words like "cloud," "dynamic," and "service."

2. All software is rental. No more ownership. Did you like having a personal copy you could install anywhere at any time without paying a monthly fee? Too bad.

Because we're gonna complain that you pay for upgrades regularly (even though in reality you don't) and claim you're paying for it continually anyways.

In addition, we're gonna claim that our multi-gazillion dollar PC farms which go down once a week are more reliable than that *nix PC you own that has been running for years non-stop.

We're also gonna claim you need a super large support staff that is a beast to handle, so we handle it for you. Which would be true if you owned an equally large multi-gazillion dollar PC farm like we do. Which you don't.

But wouldn't renting a small piece of a super multi-gazillion dollar PC farm be cool?

3. Your personal data is made public.

4. Repetitive resurgence of thin clients, dumb terminals, etc under different names, and the insistence that "this time it'll work." Again.

5. All of your applications stop working when you visit your relatives in the country, along with your cell phone.; Posted by: CobraA1 Posted on: 04/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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And number 6 would be Pliny the Elder | 04/09/09

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