Thoughts 15 Nov 2008 01:31 pm
Cloud Computing
Someone started a conversation about “cloud computing.”
My initial response was that is was a marketing scheme designed to get you to pay for a service or services you either already have or don’t need.
More importantly all the hype says the same thing. Cloud Computing puts your company data in the hands of some other company. –Are they out of their ever lovin’ minds??
At any rate, I went looking for sources to back up my view. Once I got done wading through the bullshit spewed by companies who thought they could profit from “the cloud” I found a couple of good quotes.
According to Larry Ellison of Oracle:
“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?“We’ll make cloud computing announcements. I’m not going to fight this thing. But I don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud.”
Cloud computing is “stupidity,” says Linux guru Richard Stallman in an interview with the Guardian:
“It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,” he told The Guardian.“Somebody is saying this is inevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”
The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party.
Somebody on a blog said something about the convenience of being able to access your data from any web browser. –Trading security for convenience. What a wonderful concept.
It gives the bad guys easy access as well. They no longer need to worry about dealing with a broad array of corporate databases, firewalls and vpns. –They can use the same methodology against everyone in a given cloud…. It’s one hack fits all.
Cloud Computing as a fashion statement: –The paisley shirt of 2009