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Jun 11
2010

The Cloud’s Five Biggest Weaknesses

Posted by: Floyd Tucker

Tagged in: Weaknesses , Security , SaaS , ROI , privacy , performance , cloud

Floyd Tucker

Can't say I agree with all of these - do you? (Leave your comments)

And security isn’t at the top of list. In what areas is cloud computing still vulnerable? Hint: They aren’t all technology related.

1) Performance. The recent problems with Twitter (“Fail Whale”) and Steve Jobs’ embarrassment at the network outage at the introduction of the new iPhone don’t exactly impart warm fuzzy feelings about the Internet and network performance in general. An SLA can’t guarantee performance; it can only punish bad performance. And a critical application is just that, critical.