Cloud Computing — What happened to My Cloud?

February 26, 2008

Cloud computing…it’s all the rage in tech circles.  Move your applications and data to “the cloud”, the web.  Don’t worry, it’s safe….   It’s accessible….  “Nothing can go wrong…”

 Thunderstorm

Oops.  Today, another report of turbulence in the cloud.  An outage of Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger.  What happens now?  I guess you wait till they find and fix the problem, and hope they have not lost your data.

So is cloud computing is a high-risk proposition?