Depends on what you mean by "mass adoption" I think we'll see substantial adoption for certain functions in 24-30 months. Beyond, there are too many variables that will be different to even predict.
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Rod Trent <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's safe to say that any kind of mass cloud adoption is still 5 > years out. Even Microsoft suggests that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:11 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Anyone move from MS Office to Google Docs? > > That last should read: "I will fight against any public cloud > implementation until I'm satisfied on points 2, 3 and 4 - and I expect > points 2 and 3 to be considerably easier to deal with than point 4." > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:08, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Four points, at least: > > > > 1) Google's set of hardware is likely way more reliable than mine, or > > anyone's on this list. > > > > 2) Improving performance in computing is all about chasing bottlenecks > > - We're going to have to do something about bandwidth to make external > > (private or public) clouds competitive with internal clouds. > > > > 3) Bandwidth also has to meet the reliability requirements for your > > purposes. BIFs are a bitch when it's your connection to your computing > > resources, rather than simple web/email stuff that just went bye-bye. > > > > 4) The security of clouds hosted by third parties is not yet tested. > > > > If you don't care (much) about your data being exposed to the world, > > and don't need (much) Internet bandwidth to keep your computing > > performant, and the risk to your org of connectivity outages is low, > > public clouds (whether it's Google Docs or something else) are > > probably just fine for you - actually probably better than what you > > can do in-house, because the risk of data actually being lost is lower > > than doing it yourself. > > > > $WORK has to care about its data - it deals with both > > engineering/product IP and extremely sensitive third party data. > > > > I will fight against any public cloud implementation until I'm > > satisfied on points 2, 3 and 4 - and I expect points 2 and to be > > considerably easier to deal with than point 4. > > > > Kurt > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 08:55, Stu Sjouwerman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Anyone move from MS Office to Google Docs? > >> > >> I'm doing a WServerNews editorial about this. > >> > >> Anyone made the jump, and how did this pan out? > >> > >> Warm regards, > >> > >> Stu > >> > >> > >> > >> ... > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
