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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?
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Migration to Cloud? Just marketing buzz or useful?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:34PM
Some historical analogies of "do everything in a vague manner" were ISDN and .net
The likely outcome based on previous fads is we'll end up keeping one feature, and that one feature will likely become the definition or analogy of the name which originally meant a lot of things.
For example ISDN was meant to be a top to bottom network suite. It ended up meaning 2B+D really slow broadband home internet access, and also meaning PRI trunk signalling right before VOIP destroyed traditional TDM trunking. But all the other weirder stuff ISDN was supposed to do never took hold.
Likely, in a decade, we'll still be cloud computing, but rather than meaning everything/nothing it'll mean some small aspect, like cloud computing = shared webhosting billed by bandwidth rather than more traditional billing. Thats all it'll mean at that point. The trick is getting ahead of the curve to see where its going to be.