The Cloud Failed Again, We told you so !

The cloud phobia among the skeptics peaks with a random cloud outage and is immediately touted as a cloud failure using social media tools and email services that use cloud as a backbone, and the message is "we told you so".

Photo Courtesy : Kenneth Menzes

Millions of people are using Cloud Based services for their social interaction and are blooming in their social interactions.
Social Media services including this blog run on the cloud, including Google, Facebook, Twitter to name a few and yes there have been outages but no one is complaining.
But the skeptics wait for one failure and then run riot and tout cloud computing is a failure and one needs to get back to the data center.
The paradox is many companies that use the cloud to run their business have great market value.
Facebook : 173 Billion
Twitter : 24 Billion
LinkedIn : 20 Billion
Google : 392 Billion
This is a small sample of the market value of cloud driven companies, their founders are legends and many have created value within a decade of starting their companies..
Wonder why people are skeptical about the cloud, maybe they do not understand that the cloud will only work if you take time to understand it and manage the risks in using the cloud.
The old approach to the data center driving computing does not work for the cloud, if you do not understand cloud computing this is a good time to begin learning, Remember we told you so !

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