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Cloud, the opposite of decentralised
For my money, decentralised would mean people self hosting all of their own resources except the raw data comms and using secure interoperability standards to link to the relevant bits of their correspondents systems. The Cloud as an approach infers massive data centres with everyone's stuff all gathered together under one roof. This really is not decentralisation and furthermore has always struck me as a monumentally bad idea for a huge array of reasons.
The overwhelming majority of businesses in this country, and that's high 90s percent, are small and micro sized affairs. Much as they make a load of noise in the press and the corridors of power, the large concerns are far less important than they would have us think. As far as I'm concerned, they can arrange their data however they please. I am however, deeply concerned that the small businesses of this country will fall for the hype and entrust their data to these disasters waiting to happen.
Andrew Meredith
IT Consultant, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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