If left unchecked, cloud fever could make us sick
May 31, 2014
Grazed from GigaOm. Author: Erik Pounds.
Few trends have gained as much mind share and momentum as the rush to move all our data and computing to the cloud. The fever for the cloud runs high — and it runs largely unchecked. Some, including AppZero CEO Greg O’Connor, believe that the move to the cloud is only going to accelerate. In this vision of the future, all information will be stored in centralized services and your computing devices (laptop, phone, tablet, etc.) will all access storage in the cloud.
In the more than 15 years I’ve spent in the data protection, storage and networking spaces, I’ve witnessed firsthand the benefits many companies — and users — have reaped from this trend. In the eyes of the consumer, the internet has morphed into a group of centralized services that many of us use on a daily basis…
Services such as Google Docs, iCloud, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have all made the internet more usable for more than a billion people. This all sounds great, but it bothers me on a few levels:…
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