On the move to the clouds, an awesome post… at diversity.net.nz

Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different players – both evangelists for and detractors of, cloud computing. The post and comments are well worth a read but briefly, Stacey’s 10 reasons are;

Security
Lack of an ability to datalog
Generally based on a specific platform
Reliability issues vs in-house data centre
Portability issues (data accessibility and file formats)
Environmental concerns
Jurisdictional issues with remote and offshore hosting
Issues around the speed of access with cloud based data
The fact that large enterprises already have their own “clouds” within the firewall
Bureaucracy issues – the conservatism of enterprise decision makers

All in all (and putting aside for a moment what your thoughts are about the post itself) this sort of discussion is what makes blogging such a powerful medium. It’s fast, harnesses the collective knowledge of some very clued up people, and is unconstrained by any one vested interest.

Read it and rejoice!

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