Is cloud computing really the future of computers?

xoxo Asked: Is cloud computing really the future of computers?

It's rather the past. That is, 'cloud' is just a new buzzword for a 40+ years old concept.
The concept is simple: make someone else care for your IT needs and only do a very small part of your IT management and (maybe) development in house.
In reality, though, the economics of outsourcing does not look pretty so far ? that is, the more you outsource, the higher your management costs are.
Another disturbing aspect is dependencies it creates. Recent Amazon outage demonstrated how dangerous it could be to rely completely on a cloud solution.
Besides, in many cases those who outsource too much tend to loose key people and core expertise and competencies thus becoming less competitive.
No doubt, for some IT outsourcing works wonders, while for wast majority it is just a waste of time and money.
So will be the faith of cloud computing ? it will be a niche product for specific (usually pretty sophisticated) IT organizations, whereas majority will try it, love it initially, hate it later and end up moving back to the data centers. In fact, this is already happening.

Answers:

Ilya Answered:
Some say it will be the future of mobile computing, but I really don't see it taking off ? not for a while at least, with out data plans. Also, as mobile processors become more powerful, there is less need to use cloud computing to deal with a problem, unless it is some serious number work.

It will probably not be the future of computing, as people do not trust other people with sensitive data, and home computing's power is also increasing, and any serious processor-demanding work that would take far too long on a normal computer is quite rare ? at least for the regular user, and 'unregular' users probably have access to better hardware.

tl;dr ? No, in my opinion. It isn't overly useful now (in my experience), and as processor power increades, there is less need to process 'on the cloud'

Michael G Answered:
Far to many people refuse to trust their sensitive and confidential information to some unknown server out on the net where they have no control over who may have access to that data.

I think it will grow in popularity over the years but there are many applications where it is just not desirable to use the cloud.

Gardner Answered:
perhaps the future, but not yet, and not for a while longer it wont be commonplace. our current technology would not support the demand for 100million users constantly streaming from servers.

not yet, maybe later.

one problem is that we have spent so much money implementing what is now considered old technology as our infrastructure for internet. we would have to upgrade all our current cell towers, and servers

Graham Answered:
yes, with computers getting smaller and smaller and internet getting more and more widespread, computers will eventually move away from the physical hard drive and data will be stored on the "cloud" which will allow smaller and more efficient computers.

Anonymous Anonymous Answered:
Not necessarily, as long as there's cloud computing, they'll be people who want to keep data on their own hard drive, rather then a remote server somewhere around the globe.

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