By Martin La Monica
Published: Tuesday 11 March 2008
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Name
Paul Wallis
Location
Falkirk, Scotland
Occupation
CTO
Comment
There has been a bit of hype about "The Cloud" recently.
My take is that:
I'm sure that advances will appear over the coming years to bring us closer, but at the moment there are too many issues and costs with network traffic and data movements to allow it to happen for all but select processor intensive applications, such as image rendering and finite modelling.
Given current technological circumstances, and recent events like The Gulf cables being cut, today the business is being asked to take a leap of faith to put mission critical applications in The Cloud.
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