A fiery criticism of cloud computing has been posted to the Liticism website. The author of the Liticism website, himself employed in troubleshooting and repairing internet connections, has a stormy and angry series of objections to cloud computing in a piece titled "Cloud Computing Is a Dangerous Proposition." The objections offer significant additional depth to what this Daily Quiddity site has had to say about it recently. Computer owners should pay heed to this particular critic.
He starts with listing data breaches from Healthnet, Dell, and Sony, firms that have cloud computing and have been sending out notices about their problems. He points out that a cloud has two central elements – remote data storage and remote software (which is software installed within the cloud but not on the user monitor nor in-house computers -- "software as service," also called "SAS").
The Liticism article goes on to point out that remote data storage isn’t new, and that the glut of it around 2008 created "cloud computing" as a marketing ploy to do something with it. The article doubts that off-site data storage is safer. The data center may be climate controlled, monitored, equipped with fire-suppressant systems and using data-grade hardware, but there is no standard for reliability, no government or third party regulation and no accountability. "That data should be kept internal, off the Internet, and within arm’s reach," the article says. Remotely, off-site and probably out-of-state, "…it’s not a matter of if you’ll have a breach, it is when…"
The article also scoffs at software as service (SAS). It asks the reader to remember how slow a large Excel spreadsheet loads on a PC. Now imagine that both the spreadsheet data and the Excel program are off-site and have to be loaded. The writer’s conjecture is that the money "saved" by not buying nor upgrading software is blown on inactive employees waiting for the cloud to load data into a cloudy application.
The writer’s experience is that internet connections are fickle and unreliable, and this technology is the heart and soul of cloud computing. So the iffy internet can, at any moment, for an unpredictable period of time, wind up costing employee productivity and customers. "To move important company data offsite is the biggest mistake a business can make…Furthermore, how can you exact the same confidentiality and privacy on an outsourced company thousands of miles away?"
The conclusion of the article warns investors "who have fallen for this shiny nickel" that cloud computing "is the biggest farce of the decade."
--the above review is a summarization by the Daily Quiddity blog author of this link:
http://www.liticism.com/2011/05/09/cloud-computing-is-a-dangerous-proposition/
He starts with listing data breaches from Healthnet, Dell, and Sony, firms that have cloud computing and have been sending out notices about their problems. He points out that a cloud has two central elements – remote data storage and remote software (which is software installed within the cloud but not on the user monitor nor in-house computers -- "software as service," also called "SAS").
The Liticism article goes on to point out that remote data storage isn’t new, and that the glut of it around 2008 created "cloud computing" as a marketing ploy to do something with it. The article doubts that off-site data storage is safer. The data center may be climate controlled, monitored, equipped with fire-suppressant systems and using data-grade hardware, but there is no standard for reliability, no government or third party regulation and no accountability. "That data should be kept internal, off the Internet, and within arm’s reach," the article says. Remotely, off-site and probably out-of-state, "…it’s not a matter of if you’ll have a breach, it is when…"
The article also scoffs at software as service (SAS). It asks the reader to remember how slow a large Excel spreadsheet loads on a PC. Now imagine that both the spreadsheet data and the Excel program are off-site and have to be loaded. The writer’s conjecture is that the money "saved" by not buying nor upgrading software is blown on inactive employees waiting for the cloud to load data into a cloudy application.
The writer’s experience is that internet connections are fickle and unreliable, and this technology is the heart and soul of cloud computing. So the iffy internet can, at any moment, for an unpredictable period of time, wind up costing employee productivity and customers. "To move important company data offsite is the biggest mistake a business can make…Furthermore, how can you exact the same confidentiality and privacy on an outsourced company thousands of miles away?"
The conclusion of the article warns investors "who have fallen for this shiny nickel" that cloud computing "is the biggest farce of the decade."
--the above review is a summarization by the Daily Quiddity blog author of this link:
http://www.liticism.com/2011/05/09/cloud-computing-is-a-dangerous-proposition/
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