Is Cloud-Computing redundant already?

Posted: September 2nd, 2009 | Author: The Morodo Team | Filed under: blog | Tags: | No Comments »

What Clouds look likeProps to Google for coming completely clean on just why Gmail crashed again yesterday. A timely reminder that Cloud-Computing is essentially desktop-outsourcing and as such it retains some inherent risk.

Writing in today’s Guardian, Cory Doctorow sums it up:

It’s easy to think of some extremely specialised collaborative environments that benefit from cloud computing…but if you were designing these applications to provide maximum utility for their users (instead of maximum business-model for their developers), they’d just be a place where encrypted bits of state information was held for periodic access by powerful PCs that did the bulk of their calculations locally.

Jump over and read the full article – packed with common sense.

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