A classic reply from 'i8thecat' to a request for cloud computing skeptics....

"Cloud computing is having strangers provide your apps and data remotely... Hosting them in remote server rooms/farms. Trusting them to hire trustworthy people who will not steal your data. Trusting them to hire competent people who will not lose your data or have massive amounts of down time. People competent enough to protect your data from hackers who think that one stop shopping is a great idea. Hopefully you will have someone competent enough to negotiate the costs of record retention (data backups), storage, and hopefully hold them for the correct timeframe and hopefully destroy them after the legally required data retention period. Hopefully they have a disaster recovery plan, and they have tested that disaster recovery, and hopefully they don't have to spend years constructing a brand new (massive) data center (in order to facilitate the disaster recovery in the event of a real disaster). Hopefully your cloud companies ISP is relaible enough to ensure stable service so that your business doesn't come to a grinding halt when your network connection goes down (right before the world makes the leap to IPv6)... Oh yes, cloud computing is a great idea (If you are brain dead)."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/calling-all-cloud-skeptics/1116?tag=nl.e550

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