C|Net
I was recently cited in C|NET News by Red Hat’s Gordon Haff (@ghaff) talking about the myth of public cloud and how Nick Carr pretty much got it wrong in his book, ‘The Big Switch’:
the idea of there being a “Big Switch” in the sense of all computing shifting to a handful of mega-service providers is, at a minimum, overstated. In part, this is because computing is a lot more complicated than electricity. The electrons powering a motor don’t have privacy and security considerations. The electrons encoding a Social Security number in a data center do. Plenty of other technical and governance concerns also conspire to make computing less utility-like. However, as CA’s Andi Mann writes in a recent post on his personal blog, even the cost benefits of public clouds aren’t necessarily a given:
Check out the whole article here – Cloud computing’s big surprise.
May 16, 2011