Cloud computing: Up in the air, and back down on the ground

Avoid unintended consequences.

I recently saw the movie "Up in the Air." In it, George Clooney's character runs away from many of his problems by choosing a life that keeps him on airplanes - no place to call home, no entanglements, and where things we all take for granted are notably missing.

I had been working on a presentation about cloud computing, and it struck me that in a number of ways what Clooney's character did was to outsource his lifestyle to the cloud - literally! Like Clooney, many users think they can escape certain challenges by moving to cloud computing. And, like Clooney, most companies find that, sooner or later, they need to come back down to earth and deal with them.

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