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To: fulltlt

Why I think the cloud is a fad in a nutshell.


2 posted on 02/01/2013 7:48:20 AM PST by discostu (I recommend a fifth of Jack and a bottle of Prozac)
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To: discostu

LMAO! My company wants to go to MS365 and “the cloud.” This is gonna be fun.


3 posted on 02/01/2013 7:50:57 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: discostu

I can’t think of a single advantage to using “the cloud”.


4 posted on 02/01/2013 7:52:23 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: discostu

Yep.


7 posted on 02/01/2013 7:53:47 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: discostu

The software as a web service concept was pushed by MS and other companies back in the late 90s. It was way too early for the technology back then and it isn’t much better now.

The “cloud” is presented as this mystical storage and web services super machine somewhere out there in the ether. It is just collections of servers located in some physical building on the ground, somewhere in the world. Servers fail and if the failover plan also fails it can be disasterous to entities that push critical services and data into the “cloud”. This is not that much different than the outsourcing craze back in the 90s. Put your critical data and resources into the hands of an outside company that has no real stake in your success and you are incurring a huge risk.


8 posted on 02/01/2013 7:58:19 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: discostu

GET A MAC.


10 posted on 02/01/2013 7:59:35 AM PST by Bubba (Kriss... firearm of choice for close encounters of the worst kind)
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To: discostu

The cloud is a marketing gimick for suckers who are too democrat party to realize cloud is just code for “storage on my server”.

BTW storage those suckers are too lazy to realize costs money to their bottom line.


11 posted on 02/01/2013 8:02:22 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: discostu
Last year I went to the "Maker Faire" in Silicon Valley. Autodesk was there with their "direct from reality" auto-sculptor, a very elaborate setup which includes an array 64 Canon SLR digital cameras and their associated lighting.

There were two or three Autodesk people standing around, looking bored. One of them showed me a sculpture of a show guest that had been made earlier in the day. I asked if I could get one of myself, and the young lady replied "sorry, the cloud's down."

30 posted on 02/01/2013 8:52:02 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: discostu

Exactly. I want some control over my software, and I want it on my own machinery for just this reason. I don’t want my office wiped out, without recourse or backup. And who would trust Mister Bill Gates, anyway?


40 posted on 02/01/2013 9:51:20 AM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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