Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:40:33 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VdH3WZKrI8bCUFEB83BX7AN8IPDmuXz57DaOxhUfBkQoIZFyoy X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:RyWRAD6+57HmztausW/Gs1D19XI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2306 On 07/04/14 23:25, Peter Percival wrote: > RS Wood wrote: >> From the «under ur bridge, trolln ur newzgroop» department: >> Title: RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection >> Author: Peter Coffee, Salesforce.com >> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:30:09 -0400 >> Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/KXN2cls8pGU/ >> Podcast Download URL: >> http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/453612803.jpg >> >> Sometimes, it’s hard to tell when a novelty becomes a trend or a trend >> becomes the new normal. This is not one of those times. The era of the >> on-premise server is clearly behind us, with the cusp of change >> literally on >> our calendars. > > So, what does that mean then, "The era of the on-premise server is > clearly behind us, with the cusp of change literally on our calendars"? For about 5 minutes. The "cloud" is a fad word of the moment. There have always been timeshare services since the dawn of computing and this is just a modern form of the same, perhaps made more universally usable by IP networks and the Internet. However, between various "cloud" disasters recently plus Edward Snowdon, I think a lot of businesses are looking very hard at not using the cloud. For example, I work for a british university. Use of Dropbox is specifically banned - because some parts of the university work with medical data (therefore highly confidential patient records). On the other hand, we use Office365 for our email - go figure! At home, I use Google Calendar - unlikely to "go away" and we do not have anything hugely sensitive in there. I run my own mailserver because I am NOT having that scanned by Google. I use Google Drive for only a few things and run my own fileserver for everything else.