I am unashamedly old-fashioned. Partly this is due to the circumstance that broadband only recently became available to me, and I am still playing catch-up. Partly it is due to my age and personality. I am distrustful of fads and I prefer the tried and true over the latest and greatest.
One of the fads I distrust is the movement to cloud computing. I like physical possession. I enjoy the security of knowing that my data resides securely on a hard drive that belongs to me. I don’t like the idea that I am renting property on someone else’s real estate, and that I have to rely on an Internet connection to access what should already be mine.
What I dislike and fear is the lack of choice. Every time there is a stampede to the latest wonder of technology, other options for those who do not want to jump on the bandwagon start to disappear. I don’t want to be part of the cloud for a very practical reason: Now that ultra-fast fibre is becoming widespread, providers of services I also depend on are rushing to the assumption that everyone has access to unlimited high-speed broadband. Well, I don’t and I probably never will. My broadband is and will likely always be RBI wireless with a data cap. So will I get left in the dust again, like I did with dial-up?
In recent days a major international corporation has had its private parts exposed to the world by vengeful hackers. Gamers were unable to try out their new Christmas toys for two days because some rogue lizards were able to disable the two major on-line gaming platforms. Major web sites are brought down on a daily basis by ddos attacks carried out by agents of evil and frisky adolescents. Apparently the Internet is so insecure by design that almost anyone with a grudge and some pre-fabricated software can bring the world to its knees.
In view of all this recent experience, I have to ask, why would anyone in their right mind want to depend on cloud computing for anything? Are cloud-dwellers idiots?
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I have to ask, why would anyone in their right mind want to depend on cloud computing for anything?
I think there is a misconception of what the cloud actually is by a lot of people - it is not just being charged for storage space in the sky nor is it just hardware provisioning like what people might think EC2 is. In reality any computing model that consumes and deliver services online is considered cloud and you'd be surprised what fits that.
Cloud computing as a service focuses on satisfying a need and not having to worry about maintenance of an IT system (even if it is a personal need). Given that you consider yourself as 'old fashioned' I somehow wonder if the delivery messages have been lost as it serves to abstract away the difficulties of having to set up infrastructure, hardware, software by yourself.
Lastly if control is what you seek e.g. for hosting, there are organisations out there that will actually offer you control right down to knowing/changing individual component (like a memory module or MAC address) and where it is hosted, including the server rack location. (it just won't be cheap)
If you don't see the benefit of cloud, don't use it then
No one is forcing you to do anything
Don't like the flexibility, Agility, better optimised Resources? Pay as you go. Think of it as a utility, the ability to access applications and technology as-needed and on-demand, while paying for only what is being utilised
You are probably using cloud services today without realising it
Cloud is now heading thru the hype and into the maturity phase. The 3 mega cloud vendors, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are spending upwards of 90% of their R&D budgets on Cloud technologies.
If you prefer to purchase infrastructure outright instead of renting, if that economic model isn't for you then don't use clouds selling * as a service
Rikkitic:
I am unashamedly old-fashioned. Partly this is due to the circumstance that broadband only recently became available to me, and I am still playing catch-up. Partly it is due to my age and personality. I am distrustful of fads and I prefer the tried and true over the latest and greatest.
One of the fads I distrust is the movement to cloud computing. I like physical possession. I enjoy the security of knowing that my data resides securely on a hard drive that belongs to me. I don’t like the idea that I am renting property on someone else’s real estate, and that I have to rely on an Internet connection to access what should already be mine.
What I dislike and fear is the lack of choice. Every time there is a stampede to the latest wonder of technology, other options for those who do not want to jump on the bandwagon start to disappear. I don’t want to be part of the cloud for a very practical reason: Now that ultra-fast fibre is becoming widespread, providers of services I also depend on are rushing to the assumption that everyone has access to unlimited high-speed broadband. Well, I don’t and I probably never will. My broadband is and will likely always be RBI wireless with a data cap. So will I get left in the dust again, like I did with dial-up?
In recent days a major international corporation has had its private parts exposed to the world by vengeful hackers. Gamers were unable to try out their new Christmas toys for two days because some rogue lizards were able to disable the two major on-line gaming platforms. Major web sites are brought down on a daily basis by ddos attacks carried out by agents of evil and frisky adolescents. Apparently the Internet is so insecure by design that almost anyone with a grudge and some pre-fabricated software can bring the world to its knees.
In view of all this recent experience, I have to ask, why would anyone in their right mind want to depend on cloud computing for anything? Are cloud-dwellers idiots?
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