Silver Lining or Stormy Weather Ahead?

摘要

Cloud computing. Remote hosting. Software as a Service (SaaS). Outsourcing. Terms that all describe various parts of the same IT elephant these days. The sexy ones-cloud computing, for example-emphasize New Age-y, "2.0" virtues of collaboration and sharing with perhaps slightly mystic overtones: Exactly where and what is the "cloud," after all? Others, such as the more utilitarian "remote hosting" and "outsourcing," appeal more to the bean counters and sustainability-minded among us. But they're really all about the same thing: the tradeoff between cost and control.