Computing's Swinging Pendulum

Forbes.com (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. The stampede to outsource computing into the cloud has some interesting consequences. Rather than further distributing computing, it's actually centralizing much of the data, and more importantly, the control of that data. It took almost four decades to fully distribute computing from mainframe computers to PCs and then to a slew of portable devices such as smart phones. The whole argument for the client/server era of computing was that it moved computing closer to the user, distributed the processing and provided universal access to corporate data that used to be regulated by IT departments. (Read Full Article)

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