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Steve Wozniak predicts dark future for cloud

Steve Wozniak predicts dark future for cloud

By:  Brian Bloom  On: 07 Aug 2012 For: Computing Canada Creator
 

IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Apple co-founder sees "a lot of horrible problems in the next five years"

The co-founder of Apple has been pretty outspoken in his criticism of cloud services, citing the usual concerns over security and lack of control. It does seem a little narrow-minded, however, to criticize "cloud" as a singular concept that inherently means giving up control of your computing assets.

Many, if not most larger enterprises are not keen on adopting a full public cloud for these very reasons. Given enough scale, a private cloud can be a viable option, or a hybrid deployment that puts non-critical applications in the public cloud while keeping mission-critical applications on premise.

In a sense, the companies that have the most to lose, in theory, from giving up control of their applications are already moving very cautiously with regard to public clouds, while smaller companies are readily adopting it. For the latter, it becomes a simple matter of risk vs. return, and the return can be very substantial indeed.
 

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brian bloom Brian Bloom is a staff writer at ComputerWorld Canada. You can find him on Google+.He covers enterprise hardware and software, information architecture and security topics.

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