My company has a large number of sites around the world. Over the last two years, all of our servers were removed from those sites and our data went to one set of servers, managed by a bunch of drones from some other company. I suppose this is a variant of cloud computing.
It totally bites. Data access is notably slower (as you might suspect when cable runs of a few hundred feet become runs of thousands of miles). Service completely stinks, because the service company has no idea what we do and seems to care less. We may lose access to critical data for hours at a time. Long days get longer as we wait for servers to come back up.
But our CEO gets his bonus for "saving money". If this is the cloud, then count me out. No way I'm putting my own data into a mess like that.
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