The Clouds and Human Nature
The move to promote cloud computing has many people worried about the possible implications of computer and programs that run systems out of anybody’s control (at least that’s what they are saying the system would take shape in). But the truth of the fact is that somebody has to own, run and manage the systems on which the cloud would take shape in. Cloud computing is a more distributed form of client-server based applications with people paying the people who own the data centers on which your data and programs resides in a fee for the amount of computing stuff you do.
Scary enough? Consider the many times when Google has experienced a hiccup and factor that into the whole cloud computing equation (Google has one of the largest data centers thus is most likely to rent out most of it’s idle or spare processing power to the cloud) and it does become quite scary indeed. It may take more time in the pressure cooker that is the many think-tanks who have to iron out all the details before they do get much of the many proposed systems onto the cloud. There are a few pioneering programs that are in the clouds but on an experimental state rather than full-blown deployment.