Cloud Computing: An Ode To The Lost Server Huggers
It is no longer a question. The Cloud is officially the future, it is here to stay and will probably take over everything in the next two to three years. As some industry watchers are saying the only major hurdle still blocking the way of the Cloud’s inexorable march are the server huggers still clinging on to their legacy technologies and private data centres. However, I totally understand what they are going through as virtual gods of the data centre, these server professionals have actually paved the way for the success of Cloud computing but are now facing what every previous generation of microprocessor has met: obsolescence. Rather than steam roll these veterans of the server battlefield into pancakes beneath the glacier that is the Cloud, what many of these guys or rarely gals are forgetting is that there are still two options for them. Both will require change to a certain degree but only one may require them to start from scratch. Rather than fight the unstoppable flow of Clo...