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Originally Posted by markhoffman  does that affect the context of the discussion?! even if the portions they host on the cloud are not their core, they are not obligated to spend money (especially in 2009) and dump part of their data in a crap black hole. It is down to each business to decide which parts to be done and how.. in the case of small businesses, it is all together, it is not worth splitting it up, and given the fact that the cloud saves them the infrastructure hassle, i can't see why they wouldn't do it.. |
In the context that you mentioned millions of companies were using it and then mentioned the names of the companies, then yes, it is relevant to mention that some of the those large companies only use it for a small portion of their business. It is like me saying that Intel use me as a debt collector to collect their cash, when in fact the reality would be that they would only use a debt collector for 1 debt at a time.. it is a matter of scale and for a conversation the scale needs to be understood.
Honestly, I think we are all going round in circles here and the conversation is getting stale. Clearly we all have differing views, which is great for a debate, but not great to get people to buy.
Cloud computing is one of those things that is going to take time before it is trusted by many businesses. Safe or not, cost effective or not, many small businesses, and by small businesses I mean the type that will use all of the business forums and have 5 or less employees are not going to switch anytime soon because it is just not important enough to worry about whilst their companies are still growing. Right or wrong is not important, trust is important and trust cannot be bought and trust has to be earnt over time. If Google came out tomorrow and said "we are ready, our cloud is here" then some would trust them and blindly go to them.. other cloud companies are going to have to work a damn sight harder to convince everyone that it works.
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