Forget ‘the Cloud’; ‘the Fog’ Is Tech’s Future

Grazed from WSJ.  Author: Editorial Staff.

I’m as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing as anyone you’ll meet. Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and retrieving data, don’t make sense without the cloud, and any business that isn’t racing to push its data and software into someone else’s data center is, in my view, setting itself up for disruption by a competitor who is.

But cloud advocates are fond of declaring that 100% of computing will someday reside in the cloud. And many companies are in business to sell you on that notion.  Here’s the reality: Getting data into and out of the cloud is harder than most engineers, or at least their managers, often are willing to admit…


The problem is bandwidth. If you’re a company simply seeking to save the cost and headache of storing data yourself, the cloud is great as long as all you need to do is transfer data back and forth via high-speed wiring…

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