Um... If the company doesn't have any infrastructure of their own to break down, how would having staff of their own help increase response times? Remember, Nick's argument comes not from a wishy-washy "gosh, wouldn't utility computing be great" perspective, but from a deep, long-term analysis of the numbers. In the end, just as virtualization has taught us that efficient use of systems brings economy of scale, utility computing is teaching us that leveraging similar economies of scale for entire data centers is vastly more efficient than giving each company (large, medium or small) their own silo to operate.
That being said, the concerns expressed elsewhere about data are real, as are concerns that everyone should have about vendor lock-in. Check out my commentary on this subject.
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I posted on this very subject a few days ago. Between the Stored Communications Act and recent court interpretations of expectation of privacy in the cloud, data stored in the cloud is in real trouble. Here is my post: http://blog.jamesurquhart.com/2008/09/cloud-computing-and-constitution.html
Um... If the company doesn't have any infrastructure of their own to break down, how would having staff of their own help increase response times? Remember, Nick's argument comes not from a wishy-washy "gosh, wouldn't utility computing be great" perspective, but from a deep, long-term analysis of the numbers. In the end, just as virtualization has taught us that efficient use of systems brings economy of scale, utility computing is teaching us that leveraging similar economies of scale for entire data centers is vastly more efficient than giving each company (large, medium or small) their own silo to operate.
That being said, the concerns expressed elsewhere about data are real, as are concerns that everyone should have about vendor lock-in. Check out my commentary on this subject.