A cloud hangs over the sysadmin
Found on The Register on Friday, 10 June 2011
Cloud computing will not result in job losses, not least because whatever promise such models may hold in principle, they will take years to enact in practice.
Cloud computing may not be about to put us all out of work, but it may change how some things are done.
The answer depends on whether we are talking about private or public cloud. In the first, an organisation both manages and exploits the cloud infrastructure; in the second the organisation exploits somebody else's infrastructure.
I really can't hear it anymore: cloud here, cloud there, as if it is the next big thing after sliced bread. It's the whole dot-com bubble again where everybody jumped onto what was the cloud back then: the Internet. People, as well as companies, are running towards these clouds like lemmings, only to realize, when it is too late, that it is not what they thought it would be. Then they will whine and blame others for believing some fairy-tales about how the cloud will increase their success by several orders of magnitude. Everybody is shocked when another company gets hacked and the personal information of millions leaks, yet they happily push every bit onto cloud services where nobody knows how secure they really are. So stop getting wet over that cloud and switch your brain on again, because it is nothing more than your old Internet.