Sunday, August 12, 2012

Too Many Users of "Big Cloud" Big Suckers

I'm with Woz -- "Big Cloud" is not getting the wariness it deserves.  Too many consumers and businesses are inhaling the boundless volumes of hot, breathless hype and encouragement from providers and developers to skip due diligence.  Those users consequently place themselves at significant risk of significant harm without sufficient reason.

All it takes to avoid being a sucker is answering a few simple questions.  But Big Cloud is betting on today's users being too lazy, greedy, or easily distractible to answer the right questions sufficiently, much less ask them in the first place.  And so far it's been a winning bet.

     A clearer day for the Cloud.  For a PDF, click this.