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Posted by Dan (Leadership Freak) at February 9, 2010 11:34 AM

Shelley,
Thanks for sharing Link Roundup#12!

Posted by Randy Bosch at February 9, 2010 1:22 PM

Great take on cloud computing. I loved the comment "Keith Richards in particular has suffered more data loss than any of us"

The cloud debate is fascinating. Although the debate around security and price is valid I do wonder what happens if a cloud vendor goes bust? your company's core IT infrastructure could literally disappear overnight! Although you may have contractural clauses etc etc it could take weeks to regain access and control of your data. Even if you do get control do you have the internal knowledge of their systems to know how it's organised?

Another area is mergers and acquisitions - having seen first hand how hard it is to merge data from one company into another internally,(one of the hardest projects in IT) the thought of doing that with two third parties controlling the systems (where presumably one of the third parties is losing the business) frankly scares me. This is going to get very interesting!

I think there is a lot of heads in the cloud talk around this but very little feet on the ground discussion of real world scenarios. This is an area where you need a cynical, grouchy techy on your team giving you all the reasons why something won't work.

Posted by PaulH at February 10, 2010 3:05 AM

Paul, good points - tho there may be some redundancy in the phrase "cynical, grouchy techy." (Just kidding.) There's now a interesting debate whether China's hack on Google reflects an inherent vulnerability of cloud computing. Google claims otherwise:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011510-google-hack-cloud-computing.html?fsrc=netflash-rss

I still maintain that Ms. Joni Mitchell presciently predicted the "cloud illusions," false promises, and trade-offs of web-based computing - in her prophetic masterpiece, "Both Sides Now."

Posted by John O'Leary at February 10, 2010 11:37 AM

On January 10, 2010 at 11:12 p.m. EST, I put together some own reflections to offer my view, remaining respectful of that of others, here:

“To be a conscientiously human being into deep, subtle, and proactive awareness, you need to entertain some form of profound spirituality understanding that the greatest wealth is that of the spirit and the enlightened mind (those splendid intangibles). Once you do your own most conscientious awareness for Life, you can increasingly do your morality and ethics for said Life. Once you do your morality and ethics, you can do your actionable knowledge. In order to capture ever-updatable and perpetually amplifiable as well as actionable knowledge, you and only you must challenge yourself intellectually as if you were competing with your strongest opponent. If you really wish to immerse your mind into the perspective of the applied all-knowingness, you most make the greatest effort – in a sustained mode – towards actionable and applicable omniscience (*), chiefly with the perspective attached by the most sophisticated exact sciences. Once you do your intellect, knowledge, and science, you can lucidly conceive your lucrative futures for the so-called and lamentable ‘heres and nows.’ When your futures are done, conceived, visualized, and developed way in advance, foresight, and far-sight by you, you can then do your upside and downside risks. When risks are done solely by you optimally, you can do your benefits. Your risks get much better done when you consider lavish provisions for contingency planning under the rigor and vigor of mentioned omniscience. Now you know – complete the entirety of this process throughput systematically, systemically, holistically, and without ignoring a single step mentioned above – how to proceed in capturing success in personal, professional, organizational, and societal life. Can you now commence your own development, by and for yourself, of self-improvement and/or self-betterment? In the ultimate analysis, the most important is what revolts within the innermost.”

Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at February 13, 2010 2:12 AM

Tom - thanks again for mentioning Keller's roundtable discussion in your link roundup. Glad you found the series valuable!

Sonny Gill
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DeVry University

Posted by Sonny Gill at February 19, 2010 4:48 PM