Pundits keep telling us that the 'cloud' is the future. I suppose they have column-inches to fill, but that doesn't mean we should pay attention to them.
Aside from the fact that the US internet infrastructure is two orders of magnitude too slow to support it, there remains the fact that many vendors of services just aren't up to the job.
The cloud might be fine for cases in which non-contiguous locations must share data. The rest of us shouldn't be too quick to toss out our external hard-drives.
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