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51 percent of people believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing
Saw this in Reddit and just had to repost. Any thoughts?
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=2328309
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That's what they get for using marketing buzz words.
Saw it on Reddit, TLDR
Funny, what else can say?
And just wondering, what think the other 49%
Does that mean 51% of people think LiquidWeb runs a hacking service?
AWS had already proved it...
i thought this was a joke thread, then realized you guys were actually serious.
you know that "cloud" isn't magic. it runs on hardware. as such, weather does affect "the cloud"
Only if you leave "the cloud" outside. :P
@Brandon The title says "Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to National Survey" - so not most people, just most Americans. (I am American btw.)
I had to rewrite my comment after reading more into that article. The number of people that they polled is to small for it to be representative of anything.
A product sells best when the consumer is confused about what exactly it does, so all the consumer needs to know is that the product will somehow magically improve his life, his business, make everything somehow better. "Mysterious" products have always sold better, look at Apple for example: before they became more mainstream lots of people thought that a Mac had (near) magical properties, when in fact it was on a par or slower than every other PC.
Well, considering some Amazon AWS region went down due to storms...
this is irrelevant because "cloud" is just a buzzword and doesn't mean anything
Wasn't it Ratspace that first started using the term Cloud Hosting in their marketing matterials? I remember that 2 years ago their website was confusing as hell with everything being Cloud.
The "cloud" used to mean the internet... now it has multiple meanings.
Some people think the cloud and the internet are separate entities.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/30/there-goes-the-weekend-pinterest-instagram-and-netflix-down-due-to-aws-outage/
I remember a while back I was subscribed to some Photoshop Plugin site, and they emailed everyone on their mailing list that the site would be down for a couple of days due to "Rackspace Server Migration" ... so much for their f-ing cloud.