Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing?

Posted by alexcasalboni on Thursday August 27, 2015 @07:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I would like to keep this question open and span both technical and non-technical aspects/values/problems/doubts, gathering both direct users' and outsiders' thoughts.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by lucasjcm on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:24PM (#10132984)

You should Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. It really helped me out in situations like this.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by ljk on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:40PM (#10133040)

how is the book relevant to cloud computing?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by sabeur on Friday August 28, 2015 @03:45AM (#10134146)

wrong thread :)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by daxfohl on Friday August 28, 2015 @03:55PM (#10137529)

I use AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean every day because they fulfill a need, for cheaper than I could do myself. What's to "think" about it? What do you "think" about car washes?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by MalcolmDiggs on Thursday August 27, 2015 @07:56PM (#10132906)

Unfortunately that term has been used in so many ways that it's practically meaningless at this point. Did you have a particular definition of 'Cloud Computing' in mind?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by jlgaddis on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:01PM (#10132925)

Can you be a little more vague?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by wanghq on Saturday August 29, 2015 @12:29AM (#10139067)

OP already did her/his best.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by bambang150 on Saturday August 29, 2015 @11:24AM (#10140288)

I think cloud computing is a great thing. Pretty soon computers will be totally small, and you won't ever need to worry about losing data. Plenty of ways to protect it. So long as there is competition between cloud companies, people would drop a provider in a hurry if they thought their data was being compromised.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by _RPM on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:43PM (#10133298)

the "cloud" is a term used by uniformed non technical people. They don't know what they are saying when they use it. However, the "cloud" is simply access to data over a network. Emulating local data storage, but really accessed over a network.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing? by eropple on Sunday August 30, 2015 @09:35PM (#10145018)

I very strongly disagree. "The cloud" is generally understood, in my circles (and we're quite informed, though not uniformed, and just a teensy bit technical) to be elastically provisioned compute resources that allow us to avoid carrying inventory and turn CAPEX into OPEX.

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