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Cloud Computing:Is everyone already frustrated with moving everything to "The Cloud"? I love instant, local and secure data...thoughts related to having MS Office in the cloud?
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I love on-demand resources, from 5 to 500 servers in minutes. I love uptime and not worrying about the Internet connection in our office affecting customers. I love being able to spin up a complete duplicate set of our production servers (16 total) to run a load test without affecting production and paying only $200 for it.
I love delivery servers that autoscale. I love database servers that automatically fail over. I love hosting our sales and marketing website on S3 and CloudFront for less than $10/month and having amazingly fast response times throughout the world.
I love Elastic MapReduce, where for a few dollars and a few minutes, I can run almost any data-processing task in less than two hours. I love RightScale, which saves me from hiring least one SysAdmin, and maybe two through its templatized server setups, super-easy automated backups, super-easy and super-fast restores, and amazingly powerful monitoring services.
I love the cloud. Please don't take me back to a world without virtualized, on-demand, API-driven hardware.