Cloud computing and big data would have been big, until it was revealed that the NSA was spying on all internet traffic. This has cut into the foreign cales of IBM and Cicso already, and will continue until trust can be restored.
“cloud computing” is pretty much just a “rehash” of the “old days” where one big computer connected with a bunch of ‘dumb terminals’, other than the fact that those terminals are now “smart”, full-fledged computers...still the “master computer” stores everything the “hosts” have—right??
“Cloud computing and big data would have been big, until it was revealed that the NSA was spying on all internet traffic. This has cut into the foreign cales of IBM and Cicso already, and will continue until trust can be restored”
That has also put a pall over worldwide sales of US products. This has been reported in the financial statements of several high-tech companies (so far!).