Ten Reasons Why Cloud Computing is a Bad Idea

This is more a list of why hosting you're businesses applications in a remote datacenter (possibly in another country) is a bad idea. That's not the same thing as cloud computing.

For a business, every one of the listed problems boils down to a lack of end-to-end control over your data. Every one of those problems can be solved using internal clouds.

The basic assumption that cloud==internet is incorrect. Cloud means an aggregation of abstracted resources, and that is something that internal cloud software can provide, while the business maintains control of the data. Other things like ubiquitous access can be provided by WAN links and distributed clouds. This has some of the same ISP-friendliness issues as the global cloud, but frankly every business with a distributed datacenter has this problem already.

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How about the fact that it's just a rebranding of the word "Internet?" I also like how "cloud" implies some kind of distribution across multiple, redundant locations, when in reality you're usually just communicating with one server in the same old client-server paradigm as always.