Six months ago, I went on record* as saying:
In eighteen months, no-one will be talking about “the Cloud”.
I may have to re-qualify that statement:
If your business plan has the word “cloud” in it, you’re doing it wrong.
The point here is that “cloud computing” is not Web 3.0, or a revolution in IT architecture, but much more about economics and risk.
As usual, Bob Lewis says it better and is more deserving of my Prophet Hat.
* ok, maybe it isn’t written down anywhere. But I said it out loud at least once.
As usual, where Bob leads, others eventually follow. In this case I call that the sun shining out from behind the cloud
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/confessions-cloud-skeptic-724?source=IFWNLE__2010-06-21
The bad part of cloud computing is, if you lose internet may perhaps be due to a lightning strike, unpaid bill, ISP server glitch, etc) you can’t access any of your data!