http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/giving-control-of-your-data-to-the-cloud-2008-06-20/ Expert times and information on MySQL Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:45:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/giving-control-of-your-data-to-the-cloud-2008-06-20/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Robert Hodges Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:12:56 +0000 http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=1085#comment-375 It's easy to overestimate the importance of the "control" issue. I don't think anybody is going to run automated teller machine processing out of the cloud any time soon. Run-of-the-mill applications like small/medium business accounting packages are a different matter. Cloud environments like Amazon have periodic failures, but many corporate IT departments have far more. Also, the nice thing about cloud failures is that fixing them is somebody else's problem. It’s easy to overestimate the importance of the “control” issue. I don’t think anybody is going to run automated teller machine processing out of the cloud any time soon. Run-of-the-mill applications like small/medium business accounting packages are a different matter. Cloud environments like Amazon have periodic failures, but many corporate IT departments have far more. Also, the nice thing about cloud failures is that fixing them is somebody else’s problem.

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