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Clouds Illusions

Posted May 17, 2011 4:58 AM

Cloud computing promises to have a big impact on the IT world, including those developing or maintaining supply chain management software. Will you feel secure with your data in the clouds? Will the new paradigm affect how you run your operation, or will the result be transparent to you, affecting only those in the IT department.

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05/17/2011 2:58 PM

Considering what happened recently to Google and its Blogger cloud, if I were an IT manager I'd be very cautious of putting my company's information onto a server that someone else controls.

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05/17/2011 11:15 PM

"Will you feel secure with your data in the clouds?"

Absolutely not. Based on experiments I have done lately with "storing" (non-vital) information on the cloud and then subsequently losing access to it, I can not see using the cloud for anything important whatsoever...
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05/18/2011 12:09 AM

How about we coin the new term "clod computing"? Maybe it could catch on...

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05/18/2011 2:38 AM

The viability of a concept is inversely proportional to the amount of hype appearing in the media (including the Internet)...
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05/18/2011 5:53 AM

With storage as cheap as it is nowadays, I don't see why anyone would even consider risking sensitive information to cloud computing.
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05/21/2011 2:40 AM

security is only part of the picture

access is another part

real time collaboration yet another
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