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Story: Sun exec: Future cloud apps will not need humans
Still not decentralised
Breaking the system up into a small number of centralised data repositories still doesn't make it decentralised; however interoperable they are. You are still trusting your life blood data to some faceless corporation that genuinely doesn't give a fig about you as an individual customer.
It's amazing how people have been snow blinded by the big corporations into thinking that big and central is the only way to go. Small, distributed and smart is how the internet was designed and what made it a success. The designers deliberately avoided the pre-information-age "Make it big and put it all here" model for reasons of system integrity and security. Why do we suddenly believe that they had it all wrong when this approach has created the largest computer network ever conceived and moreover one that has stayed up for decades now. Sure, bits of it have come down, but never the whole lot.
What is needed is the ability for businesses and householders to easily put together their own cloudlets, and for them to interoperate with other cloudlets belonging to their business partners, suppliers, customers, friends, family, whatever. This way your data remains *your* data. it doesn't get accidentally lost, trafficked across international borders, data mined for "Legal Market Research", accidentally exposed to the world or any other of the kinds of FUBAR that we read of in these pages every day.
Andrew Meredith
IT Consultant, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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