Less than a decade ago I owned an advertising agency with 30 staff across three locations. As a digital agency our work was primarily email, internet access, document writing and sharing. To achieve and support that we had a dedicated room in Ipswich that housed switches and servers, back up facilities, racks and air conditioning units to stop everything overheating. The cost of installation was in the tens of thousands and the cost of maintaining […]
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There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I’m probably one of them. But I’ve been turning over in my mind different perspectives on the cloud. I’ve tried to set aside the views of the IT executive, who seems to dominate the debate. Instead, I’ve been thinking about what it offers lowly end-users, or for programmers who create the software. What does cloud computing mean for the rest of us? […]