[taildragger]

Really a cloud? I am gonna put my data up their to be looked at on their servers by the socialist weasels over at Google, Apple and Microsoft?

[dfwgator]

It’s like anything, you have to do a rigorous Benefit/Risk analysis to determine what to put in the Cloud, and what to keep under your control.

[buffaloguy]

Does anyone know the outcome of the Amazon Cloud Crash? I haven’t heard much about it lately.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Doesn't surprise me at all. You let the Project Managers with deadlines based on beating some other dumbass to market make the calls. It's exactly like what blew up the Challenger. All they really know is what they are told.

[MrEdd]

A meltdown of the cloud however, primarily effects only absolute idiots.

[anymouse]

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd n my cloud, baby

[GSWarrior]

Problem solved.

[Whenifhow]

FYI

[RinaseaofDs]

Any idiot out there could see where the ‘Cloud’ was going. You trust your data to the cloud, you’ll be cryin’ in the rain down the road.

The major advantage the cloud has to software companies is control over the quality and ongoing health of their installations. Less customer service cost. Higher margins.

You end up paying once you end up having to buy the servers as use picks up. Everyone in the cloud is underbuying server capacity. Cost of electricity is a big deal here - for cooling especially.