Joe Greco wrote:
Quite frankly, it's a little horrifying how quickly people have embraced not owning their own resources. On one hand, sure, it's great not to have to worry about some aspects of it all, but on the other hand...
The web sites that we entrust our data to can, and do, vanish:
You know where I never have to worry about any of that? On gear we own and control.
"Cloud" is a crock of hooey buzzword. There's no "cloud." For the average end user, it is the realization that we've farmed out tasks to
Sun had it right all those years ago: "The network is the computer." But it doesn't have to be Amazon's network, or Google's network. We *are* the North American Network Operators' Group. The people here are more than just a little clued about this stuff.
I wholeheartedly agree. I couldn't have said it better :-) -- Earthquake Magnitude: 3.2 Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 22:00:06 UTC Location: Central Alaska Latitude: 62.0453; Longitude: -152.4945 Depth: 10.90 km