Jamais Cascio says “I Told You So!” In a recent column on the failure of Microsoft’s Danger Sidekick, he quotes his own words from back in January (above) on the vulnerability of cloud computing.
I like this part:
But the point of resilience models is that failure happens.
Exactly, which is why I love the phrase, “Try to Visualize Catastrophe.”
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My take is that cloud computing, for all of its apparent (and supposed) benefits, stands to lose legitimacy and support (financial and otherwise) when the first big, millions-of-people-affecting, failure hits. Companies that tie themselves too closely to this particular model, as either service providers or customers, could be in real trouble.
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