Questioning the cloud
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A good article about why companies shouldn’t be so eager to move to the cloud.
A good article about why companies shouldn’t be so eager to move to the cloud.
Questioning the cloud | StarTribune.com
From the article..
Cloud computing is a form of corporate outsourcing, and is a modern term for what in the 1970s was called "computer time-sharing." Because cloud computing uses modern technology, it's more powerful, efficient and easy to use than computer time-sharing ever was.
That's because cloud computing data centers, typically run by big companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, use computer equipment that is simultaneously shared by many clients, using a technique called "virtualization."
Greg Potter, an analyst at market research firm In-Stat in Scottsdale, Ariz., said that companies with more than 1,000 employees, as well as most companies storing medical records, have been reluctant to risk putting their confidential corporate data in the public cloud. As a result, the rapid growth of public cloud computing has been driven mostly by smaller companies that can't afford their own data centers, he said.
The question is, 'Where is that data and who gets to see it?'" said Roger Lund, a senior systems administrator at Array Services Group. "If the data's stored in the Amazon public cloud, you don't know where it is. I'm not saying that Amazon isn't secure, I'm just saying you can't prove it one way or the other."
That's why SparkWeave can prosper in competition with big cloud computing firms, Bowlby said.
"At the end of day, you want to know where that data is."
A good article about why companies shouldn’t be so eager to move to the cloud.
Questioning the cloud | StarTribune.com
From the article..
Cloud computing is a form of corporate outsourcing, and is a modern term for what in the 1970s was called "computer time-sharing." Because cloud computing uses modern technology, it's more powerful, efficient and easy to use than computer time-sharing ever was.
That's because cloud computing data centers, typically run by big companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, use computer equipment that is simultaneously shared by many clients, using a technique called "virtualization."
Greg Potter, an analyst at market research firm In-Stat in Scottsdale, Ariz., said that companies with more than 1,000 employees, as well as most companies storing medical records, have been reluctant to risk putting their confidential corporate data in the public cloud. As a result, the rapid growth of public cloud computing has been driven mostly by smaller companies that can't afford their own data centers, he said.
The question is, 'Where is that data and who gets to see it?'" said Roger Lund, a senior systems administrator at Array Services Group. "If the data's stored in the Amazon public cloud, you don't know where it is. I'm not saying that Amazon isn't secure, I'm just saying you can't prove it one way or the other."
That's why SparkWeave can prosper in competition with big cloud computing firms, Bowlby said.
"At the end of day, you want to know where that data is."
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened."
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor