[copaliscrossing]

There are some good things about the Cloud, but no way is it for mission-critical stuff.

Another IT guy and I were talking about this subject and this cloud stuff really is starting to "cloud" the judgement of a lot of corporate decision makers and it is getting out of hand.

The biggest pitfall is once you go into the cloud, it is darn near impossible to get out of the cloud. If your company decides to go "cloud" and divests of a lot of their IT infrastructure including their either homegrown software or off the shelf stuff, it is almost impossible to reconstruct that 2, 5, 10, 15 years down the road. You have locked yourself in. The funniest part about all this is that a lot of these management types have become "drunk" on the ability to walk into their IT manager(s) and ask for a functional software change or new program and actually see that change come to fruition within a reasonable time period. They will get a rude awakening when they float into the "cloud" for their total app and data storage needs.

With all that said, there is a niche for the cloud in off-site storage and perhaps very small businesses that don't want any IT infrastructure to worry about and can function with "off the shelf" cloud solutions. But that is a very limited sector of the market.

Interesting times we live in.

[longtermmemmory]

It seems cloud was developed by a computer illiterate who thinks of computers as being in the 1950’s computing room with reels and tape.

The cloud is OLD OLD OLD tech.

Probably people who are still clininging to some far out dated crackberry.