Amid end of net neutrality, consumer cloud faces stormy future
February 21, 2014
Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: James Sanders.
While cloud computing in the enterprise enjoys ever-higher adoption rates, the consumer cloud has more hurdles to overcome. New developments this year have made the forecast for consumer-facing cloud technology a rather gloomy one. While corporate cheerleading of enterprise cloud remains abundant, a reality check is needed for the consumer cloud market, and the encumbrances which that market faces.
The end (for now) of net neutrality
After a ruling by a United States Court of Appeals in January 2014 that struck down the FCC’s net neutrality directive, accusations are flying that Verizon is throttling Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix. The FCC ruling was not unexpected, due to the way in which the FCC classifies broadband Internet services, and hope remains for altering that definition to re-introduce net neutrality as an FCC mandate…
Until FCC regulation can correct the problem at hand, relying on ISPs to reliably and swiftly deliver high-bandwidth content—or anything located on data farms such as AWS—is too high of an expectation to plan a service around…
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