Wow! Another marketing blitz on cloud computing. "Adopt or be destroyed!!!!"
Data Ownership!!!!! What about what happens when I jump on the band wagon and all of a sudden my data is in the hands of unknown third parties.
Who is going to guarantee vendor standards for data formats??? The market??? The government???
The technology may be here already but the important part isn't. The important part is the sociology. Yeah, I know, it isn't "cool" to talk to someone about using technology in a responsible manner. It is cool to bring out a bunch or random colors and sound bites that contain no actual information, force feed it to everyone, and hope that intelligent people don't look behind the curtain and find out the emperor doesn't have any cloths on.
When the first Fortune 500 company or wealthy private individual gets taken down because of weaknesses in how cloud computing is governed at a legal level, then may be the problems will get fixed and wider adoption can actually take place.
Right now anyone who hands over their data to the cloud is basically handing it out to the public. Anything you want to remain private can't go to the cloud at this time.
Marketing aside, who is actually doing something constructive to address Data Ownership right that favor the consumer and vendor standardization???
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