Cloud Cuckoo Land?

Posted by Mark on Nov 18, 2008

So, the people who brought us Vista have “unveiled” Azure so that now our data and applications can live somewhere else, in this place named “The Cloud”.

Rather than seeing this as a retrograde step, a reverse back to the time-sharing mainframes of the 1970’s and 1980’s, where access to a computer was often via renting a portion of someone else’s, this does seem to be a possible answer to the problems of data storage, application management, and data access, and one that takes away much of the headache of managing ones own infrastructure for the purpose.

But, who guards the guards?
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