RE: What are Cloud Services? Analogical Understanding

mcb1 — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 19:04:09 GMT

Interesting look at the services.

Our IT department went to the 'cloud computing' and while they were excellent at delivering smooth service before, sadly the experience has been much less than everyone wants.

One major issue is security of your data.

What guarantee do you have that it will be there in years to come.?

Here we are required to have records kept for 7 years, and I wonder if these services will still be able to deliver that.

We've seen backwards incompatibility issues before, and now you have no control over if/when the application you use is upgraded.

I'm sure some of the devs here would love to comment on what happens when the underlying platform they run on gets upgraded ... but sadly they can't.

Sorry I'm really happy to use local everything.

Mark

RE: What are Cloud Services? Analogical Understanding

shabaz — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 14:51:27 GMT

Nice article : )

Sadly too many still think cloud computing is a way to just rip off people (just one example: http://www.businesszone.co.uk/cloud-computing-is-a-rip-off-says-software-entrepreneur ) or that it is really no different to having server rental.

They forget that time to market is important (what's the point of having lots of nice hardware either locally or rented, if you can't develop your apps quickly?) and _rapid_scalability_. It was near-impossible in the pre-cloud-computing era for a small business to service changing demand rapidly, resulting in overcapacity (and all the cost and energy wastage) or undercapacity and losing opportunities. Now with IaaS you can scale within tens of minutes. And with PaaS it is within seconds or near-instantaneously, i.e. on-demand. And so many useful SaaS applications let you find the best way to work at costs anyone can afford, and the choice is huge. Now many people do not blink an eye if a spreadsheet is within a SaaS application rather than insisting it be e-mailed in MS Excel format.