Comments on: 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren't Ready to Trust the Cloud

By: Walter Adamson

Walter Adamson — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:05:06 +0000

I like your posts and I understand that you need to keep them coming and this one I just put in the category of your own keeping up the "noise" about cloud. Conservatism wins early, sales people make the most of it, and then it's all history.

When Sharp Corporation took a phone with a camera to NTT DoCoMo in 2001 DoCoMo said "who the hell would want a camera in a phone?". That gave birth to the biggest spurt in J-Phone's growth when they jumped at the idea and launched the camera phone and sent shock waves through the competition.

95% of internal IT can't compete with where cloud is headed, but I'm sure lots of FUD column space will be filled in the meantime.

By: air max tn

air max tn — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:47:22 +0000

the biggest danger is use of these services as paid botnets to do attacks or scrape for emails

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