What's the cloud? Ask a ten-year old.
Summary: In this interesting video, huge consulting firm, Accenture, asks ten-year old kids about the cloud. The results may surprise you.
In this fun and interesting video, huge consulting firm, Accenture, asks ten-year old kids what they think of cloud computing. The results are enlightening for a few reasons.
These kids are true digital natives, who have grown up with computers since birth, so their views lack posturing or discomfort with non-cloud alternatives. Although they're just children, we know that out of the mouths of babes sometimes does come the truth.
And yeah, it's obvious Accenture believes its own money trail leads into the cloud.
Related: For a deeper perspective on the impact of cloud computing, take a look at Cloud impact: A state of the art discussion (podcast).
[Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for the pointer to this video.]
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We're they talking about the cloud...
What the 10 year olds also didn't talk about - which they don't understand - the security, privacy, legal impacts associated with the cloud.
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Out of the mouths of babes ...
10 year olds have no idea about what to do when the system goes down.
10 year olds have no idea how to do the work without the system.
People who don't know how to work without the system are even more useless than 10 year olds when it comes to disaster preparedness, emergency operations, and disaster recovery.
This video by Accenture just hammered the last nail in their coffin for any work at our company.
Marketing: cloud = internet
Films like these, however cute and compelling, don't help anyone understand what cloud computing is all about. They're basically just using cloud as a new compelling marketing buzzword for the same old internet.
My blog post, "Cloud computing: misunderstood, but really not that complicated a concept" covers what truly differentiates cloud computing from the same-as-ever internet. See http://www.peterkretzman.com/2009/09/29/cloud-computing-misunderstood-but-really-not-that-complicated-a-concept/
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