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Migration to Cloud? Just marketing buzz or useful?

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:23AM   Printer-friendly
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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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by trimtab on Tuesday March 25 2014, @01:34PM

    by trimtab (2194) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @01:34PM (#21083)

    Umm. We were all drawing "clouds" on whiteboards in the 80s to represent "networks that had access, but were undefined" at meetings. Some marketing guy must have seen a whiteboard. ;-)

    "Cloud" is pure marketing. It allows the customer to define it as "what they want" in their own head. It's purposely vague. In reality, it is just a re-marketing of "client/server computing" with virtual machines.

    Sun was doing "the network is the computer" almost 25 years ago. The difference now is a better network and virtual machines.

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