Cloud Computing: IT Mythbusting Part 3 – No One Knows Where My Data Is
July 13, 2014
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Marc Shaw.
Even though cloud computing has quickly gone mainstream, many business owners remain hesitant. One reason is because of the many myths still surrounding cloud computing. We’re examining several of these myths in our ongoing blog series.
One issue with cloud computing is its very name. It sounds vague, ethereal; I guess my data is “somewhere up there.” The image of the cloud serves primarily to communicate dislocation, but seems to carry vague mystical overtones: people often think moving to the cloud means their data is somewhere in the ether, moving back and forth between locations possibly. The term perhaps doesn’t quite capture the true nature of the cloud computing revolution, which is really a shift toward a utility computing model…
This problem was compounded by many first-generation cloud hosting providers, who did a poor job of communicating where the clients’ data was hosted. As with any new development, the processes had yet to become standardized…
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