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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?

• 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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