by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2009
Here’s a slight addition to my orginal Storm Clouds online essay (Auricle, 9 September 2008) in which I reflected on the risks of the cloud computing paradigm. A recent Guardian edition had an interesting piece on the risks to our data when it’s stored in the ‘cloud’ (Freedom to Move Data in Vital When it’s in the Clouds, Guardian, 18 June 2009). Read the following powerful extract and reflect all ye accolytes:
“… people use banks there were laws and standards that allowed you to move your money easily from one to another. The cloud doesn’t have similar laws and standards for moving data … It’s important because most cloud-computing companies will go bust, just the same as mainframe computer companies, minicomputer companies and PC suppliers went bust. And if you are not careful, they’re going to take our data down with them.”
