Sounds like another typical tech scam....
In my opinion “the Cloud” is a lot of hot air. And another way to extend government intrusion in your records and personal life.
Cloud computing is one of the most misused tech terms these days. People think if they are a software service provider they are “cloud computing” enabled. Hooey. Real cloud computing is related to distribution of processing, providing the software as a service is only a means to acheive this distribution. If I have a computing-intensive problem, I can distribute this among a variety of nodes via a service and get super-computer like performance by renting processing power.
from today’s Barron’s:
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204555504576075934221254282.html?mod=BOL_hpp_dc
“IF INTEL NO longer controls the computer business, then who does? Surely not Microsoft, which right now is more obsessed with things like Kinect than with the PC. No, the most important company you’ve never heard of is ARM Holdings (ARMH), a 20-year-old outfit based in Cambridge, England.”
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