Does the fact that you are telling Corporations that they need to change their methods of doing business, to meet the requirements of the IT?
Does that seem a bit odd to you, the tail wagging the dog somewhat.
Dont you think that CEO's and exec's do NOT want to be IT experts, and if they did im sure thats what they would be doing.
Would it not be better to remove the need for management to be IT experts and for the IT to be tailed for the business, not the business for the IT.
You're saying the cloud will be great, but business have to change their model to suit it, surly you know that, that is not going to work. CEO's do not want to be IT experts, and there are far too many Fears, uncertainties, and doubts regarding the cloud, as is the case with all forms of outsourcing.
Not too many (smart) companies will put their crown jewles in the hands of people they do not know, from a company that is out to make money, and mabey making your data available to people who should not see it.
Sure mabey day, when your internet connection, ISP, telecom company, Cloud server and all the rest of the chain (potential weak links).
When that long system becomes faster than your local hardrive, then mabey you might get one or two on the cloud. (until the system fails).
But execs dont want to be IT experts, they hire people for that, they interview them, and they may even check things like criminal records and such. Basicall they VET their IT people, put your data on the cloud and you lose all that security and control, you add many extra links to the failure chain, and the web will never be faster or safer than your local hard drive, or plug in USB HD that you lock in the safe every night.
Im glad to see you are keen about cloud computing, but I would not bet my house on it's success.
And how many IT workers will be out of work because of companies outsourcing their IT to some super conglomerate.
Who may have interest in your data, and may go offline at any time, their ISP may fail, your ISP may fail, or any link in the chain that provide points of failure.
IMO, this cloud does not have a silver lining.
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