Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career 241
snydeq writes "IT professionals jumping into the cloud with both feet beware: It's irresponsible to think that just because you push a problem outside your office, it ceases to be your problem. It's not just the possibility of empty promises and integration issues that dog the cloud decision; it's also the upgrade to the new devil, the one you don't know. You might be eager to relinquish responsibility of a cranky infrastructure component and push the headaches to a cloud vendor, but in reality you aren't doing that at all. Instead, you're adding another avenue for the blame to follow. The end result of a catastrophic failure or data loss event is exactly the same whether you own the service or contract it out.'"
Re:So much for definitions... (Score:4, Funny)
I have started substituting the phrase " The Fog" for "The Cloud". It's starting to get kind of thick.
Re:oh please (Score:5, Funny)
Ohhhh, and when you can't use external hosting, put it on your "private cloud."