Nicholas Kontopoulos's List: SaaS & Cloud Computing

• Raining on the cloud
• "There will be a Cloud catastrophe in 2010 that limits Cloud growth by raising security issues and restricting enterprise trust. CIOs will see the Cloud as the doorstep for industrial espionage."
• Any time a technology becomes popular, there are going to be problems and cloud is getting popular enough that enough companies are going to be using it this year for us to get the critical mass for a really big problem.
• It isn't magically cheaper to run a cloud than any other kind of IT; the economies of scale and use of cheap, redundant and efficiently managed hardware are what make the difference but the long-term value of cloud platforms hasn't been proved yet
• Customer data stored 'in the cloud' has already been lost too. Magnolia, the 'cloud' bookmark service that turned out to be run on a couple of old Macs, the problems with the Danger service that Microsoft runs for T-Mobile US to back up contacts, pictures and everything else on customer Sidekicks… It's going to take something bigger and more catastrophic to turn us off the cloud.

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