tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post3438232076758642909..comments2023-11-14T08:19:54.657+00:00Comments on DMossEsq: Cloud computing is bonkers or, as HMG put it, a "no-brainer"David Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-89473273408697586462012-06-21T15:54:24.617+01:002012-06-21T15:54:24.617+01:00The points explained in the post are clear and all...The points explained in the post are clear and all are proving what you have written in these post.. My point is that i want to switch from physical and in-house servers to cloud computing because investing in this new technology has many advantages for business management in term of work effectiveness and management cost ; However; since I have read some stuff about <a href="http://cloudswave.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">cloud computing information </a> , and security, i become somewhat septic to invest mainly when i experienced a data storage crash with a cloud company that i do not want to name , so to what extent it is safe for data base storage and web hosting .cloud dealshttp://cloudswave.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-88601075090405302572012-04-15T15:09:34.244+01:002012-04-15T15:09:34.244+01:00"Dematerialised ID is BCSL’s counter-proposal...<i>"Dematerialised ID is BCSL’s counter-proposal to the UK government’s proposed ID card scheme, which may or may not be deployed in eight years time in 2013. <b>Critics of the tawdry scheme devised by the Home Office and their advisors are two-a-penny</b>. Fewer people will have lobbied the government, the Home Office, the Home Affairs Committee and others with a well worked out alternative, based on more than two years of research, as BCSL have done."</i><br /><br />That's what I wrote to John Reid in <a href="http://dematerialisedid.com/BCSL/Dematerialised%20ID%20Reid.pdf" rel="nofollow">May 2006</a>. I mention that to make it clear to you that I am alive to the danger of falling into that category of moaning whinger of the everything-that-is-is-wrong variety. What one might call the Guardian newspaper tendency. I am alive to it. And I attempt to avoid it.<br /><br />In years of writing to politicians and officials and banks and telcos and others, speaking to them on the telephone and obtaining the odd meeting with them, I brought attention to the impracticalities and illogicalities of their plans and advocated the merits of <a href="http://dematerialisedid.com/" rel="nofollow">dematerialised ID</a>. It got me nowhere.<br /><br />The obstinacy of Whitehall, its blindness to contrary evidence, its refusal to admit the validity of logical argument and its blithe acceptance of the waste of truckloads of public money coloured my opinions. Changed them – I started out believing like everyone else that Whitehall is a Rolls-Royce engine – and coloured them.<br /><br />You do not, I notice, Anonymous, attempt to defend cloud computing from the criticisms levelled against it in the article above. Are you saying, illogically, that cloud computing must be pursued even though it won't deliver, simply because there is no alternative? Surely not.<br /><br />If you're genuinely asking me for a well worked out alternative, I haven't got one. Not yet. A few pointers:<br /><br />• Take account of the evidence.<br />• Be logical.<br />• Promote localism, deprecate centralisation. <br />• Grow out of the childish fascination with technology.<br />• Trust people more, every time, there is no alternative.<br />• Understand that government is not doing the same job as the likes of Amazon and eBay and Google and PayPal.<br />• Stay alert to the possibility that, if there is no way to do a job properly, then perhaps you should stop trying.<br />• Be much more open.<br />• Beware unhealthy, craven, beholden relationships with suppliers.<br />• Behave with dignity – if you find yourself defending the indefensible, stop.<br />• If you claim to be customer-centric, make sure you are.<br />• Be a bit careful with public money, it doesn't grow on trees.<br />• Admit the possibility that Whitehall should be accountable.<br />• Bow to the supremacy of parliament, the Executive isn't meant to be in charge.<br />• ...<br /><br />That kind of thing. If and when I come up with an alternative, I'll be sure to tell you. And you? What have you come up with?David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-78352292934519606552012-04-15T12:40:21.523+01:002012-04-15T12:40:21.523+01:00"Public administration in the UK is in a parl..."Public administration in the UK is in a parlous state. No-one doubts that there are real problems. Cloud computing is not the answer."<br /><br />your blogs are long on critique, short on proposals ... what are your proposals exactly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com