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Storm Warning for Cloud Computing

May 28, 2008
by Bill Thompson
Editor, Bill Board, BBC News

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My friend Simon is one of those net entrepreneurs with the attention to detail it takes to have an idea and turn it into an effective company. He’s currently on his second job-search service, and it seems to be going very well.

One reason for the success may be that Simon has embraced the network age with a dedication that most of us can only wonder at. He uses a range of productivity tools, scheduling services and collaborative systems to manage both his personal and professional life, and once confessed to me that he had “outsourced his memory” to Microsoft Outlook and its calendar service.

Recently I’ve noticed that Simon’s head is in the cloud. Or rather, his business is, as he and his team have moved most of their systems online, taking advantage of the move from local storage and processing to cloud computing, where data and services are provided online and accessed from a PC or any other device.

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