{"id":3048,"date":"2012-08-08T19:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2012-08-08T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:55:34","slug":"woz-is-worried-about-everything-going-to-the-cloud-the-real-issue-is-giving-up-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/woz-is-worried-about-everything-going-to-the-cloud-the-real-issue-is-giving-up-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Woz is Worried About \u201cEverything Going to the Cloud\u201d \u2014 the Real Issue is Giving Up Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Guest Post\u00a0By Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of\u00a0GigaSpaces<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a recent article, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,”.. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the \u00a0next five years. ….<\/em>“…wit<\/em>h the cloud, you don\u2019t own anything. You already signed it away.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When I first read the title I thought, Wozniak sounds like Larry Ellison two years ago, when he\u00a0pitched the Cloud is hype<\/span><\/span>, before he\u00a0made a 180-degree turn to acknowledge Oracle wished to be a cloud vendor too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading it more carefully, I realized the framing of the topic is instead just misleading.\u00a0<\/span>Wozniak actually touches on something that I hear more often, as the cloud hype cycle is moves from a Peak of Inflated Expectations into through the Trough of Disillusionment.<\/p>\n

Wozniak echos an important lesson, that IMO, is major part of the reason many of the companies that moved to cloud have experienced lots of outages during the past months. I\u00a0addressed\u00a0several of these aspects in in a recent blog post:\u00a0Lessons from the Heroku\/Amazon Outage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we move our operations to the cloud, we often assume that we’re\u00a0out-sourcing\u00a0our data center operation\u00a0completely, including our disaster recovery procedures. The truth is that when we move to the cloud we’re only outsourcing the infrastructure, not our operations, and the\u00a0responsibility\u00a0of how to use this infrastructure remain ours.<\/p>\n

Choosing better tradeoffs between producivity and control<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

For companies today, the main reason we chose to move to the cloud in the first place was to gain better agility and productivity. But in starting this cloud journey, we found that we had to give up some measure of control to achieve the agility and productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

The good news is that as the industry mature there are more choices that provides\u00a0better tradeoffs between producivity and control<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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