Comments on: Cloud computing – How much of your data should be online?

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:46:37 +0000

[...] does bother me though is if Cloud Computing can actually become a boon for India. Sure, we have had a huge number of SME’s and SMB’s switching over to Cloud Computing [...]

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Cloud Computing « jStafford87’s Blog — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:42:06 +0000

[...] be even better. The information that you put on a Cloud could be critical to you or your company How Much Data Should You Put Online? is a god question and i really dont know but it would be up to you to trust the company with this [...]

By: Navneet Karnani

Navneet Karnani — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:20:25 +0000

@Sriram cloud does not necessarily mean insecure. ICICI would definitely be a customer for somebody like RackSpace.com where they would rent the infrastructure, but retain control of the data. That would allow them to save on power and space and hence benefit from the cloud.

By: Arun Prabhudesai

Arun Prabhudesai — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:00:42 +0000

@Sriram, Interesting point made – but you see Cloud computing was never for these so called Large corporates. Do you know that the share of Large corporates and probably companies like ICICI bank is less than 5% . They will never be on cloud computing.
But Cloud computing offers a lot to 95% of all other sites. Infact, Cloud computing does one thing very well – Unclog the Internet from unnecessary traffic. Cloud serves data to end user from Nearest location to him, saving upon backbone bandwidth to a large extent.

Infact, what I see few years down the line is majority of hosting servers will be in the cloud – They will have farms geographically distributed that serve data, and probably half of all the sites/blogs on the Internet will be on the cloud.
The trend has actually already started and catching up fast.