So all of the sudden everything must be shoved into the cloud. What for? Honestly are we really doing this to solve a business problem or is the latest trend in the digital frontier only because of intense marketing promulgated by the very operations offering cloud based services? To state it another way by looking as one of my favorite #quotes of all time:
Han Solo: Damn fool, I knew you were going to say that.
Ben Kenobi: Who’s the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
I know you’re thinking ‘but Mike all of the cool IT leaders are putting their data in the cloud.’ Pah! I say. Just because everyone else is jumping off a proverbial IT bridge… :-S
Honestly if one were to examine clouds let’s consider the physical ‘real’ cloud for a moment? Clouds are on a good day light and fluffy pockets of moist vapor which does not seem like a very good place to store my data. I mean honestly servers, gadgets and computers in general do no mix well with water. Ok on a bad day though clouds can leads to thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes. All of which still do not make me comfortable about pumping my data into a cloud.
So earlier this week Apple announced their new iCloud service which will replace Mobile Me. Funnily enough Mobile Me replaced their previous cloud service known as dotMac or .Mac which coincidentally which had it predecessor in iDisk. Yes it looks like the rebranding and slight tweaking has continued. I truthfully do not see any valuable reason to use iCloud. there is almost nothing it would give me free or paid that I don’t already have in some other place. Sadly this is one cup of Apple juice I am not drinking.
Honestly I am seriously considering pyramids. Let’s look at the facts the Egyptians put their important data in pyramids and it has lasted 10,000 years. I don’t know about you but I like those odds a lot better than some ethereal vaporware. Sure there are other issue to solve relating to pyramids I mean they are big and heavy so you can’t just put one in your pocket and don’t even get me started on backing one up. But they are solid and dependable so that good enough for me.
Perhaps some other non-cool-aide drinking tech types want to help me create some holocrons? I mean honestly how hard can it be? Of course the Sith Holocrons are the ones that are pyramid shaped.
Related articles
- Verizon’s future is in the clouds (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
- Slidecast: Cloud Storage – Look Before You Leap (insidehpc.com)
- What the Apple iCloud Means…and What it Doesn’t (musicbusinessheretic.wordpress.com)
- For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It’s A Humiliation (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
- Is Apple tapping Amazon and Microsoft to boost iCloud? (gigaom.com)
- Who Benefits From Apple’s iCloud? (fool.com)
