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Migration to Cloud? Just marketing buzz or useful?

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:23AM   
from the SoylentCloud-SoylentBI dept.

microtodd writes:

In the wake of Cisco's announcement of entering the cloud market, there are several business case analyses that provide insight into whether the cloud is a good thing or not. Of course there are always competing factors between management and IT, which usually boils down to short-term vs long-term cost and financials vs technicals. What do the Soylenters think? Is the cost savings worth the security risks? Are the technical benefits of reliability worth delegating some administrative control?

• Both Both (Score: 5, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:39AM

  by Vanderhoth (61) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:39AM (#21002)

  I didn't RTFA, but "Just marketing buzz or useful?" it depends on what you want to do.

  "The Cloud" is most definitely a marking term used by managers to sound like they're in the know. "We're going to move our acoustical data the cloud." Basically cloud is just BS for let someone else deal with it.

  In some cases that's good. My phone automatically sends pictures to dropbox where they can easily be shared with mine and my wife's parents so they can keep tabs on their granddaughter. It can also be really bad, like my wife taking a nude selfie to send to me that ended up in dropbox, her poor father... Joking aside, the bad part is actually because if the cloud host you're using decides to shutdown, or is shutdown or has a data breach it's like keeping all your eggs in one basket that's precariously perched on top of the empire state building. Someone farts the wrong way and you lose everything.

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• Re:Both (Score: 3, Insightful) by ElderGeek on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:23PM

  by ElderGeek (1387) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @02:23PM (#21102)

  Lets not forget some of the other possible world-ending scenarios

  • Your provider is leasing equipment from another company. They miss a lease payment and DELL or HP rolls in and takes possession of the equipment. You are a 3rd party and have no say in the deal. They can roll the servers out of state or wipe them.
  • Your provider has a billing issue with their ISP and they are cut off from the internet.
  • Someone other client of theirs is hosting kiddy porn, or makes death threats to the president, and the Secrete Service or FBI come and and roll a rack or two of servers out. For the next 2 to 5 years until the trial is over you will have no access to your data.

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