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What do you call a cloud with legs?

22nd Nov 2013
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A Sheep.

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By Mouse007
23rd Nov 2013 07:59

Keeping my head OUT of the cloud

The cloud, everyone keeps going on about the cloud. Well let me tell you, clouds only come in black and white. Which co-incidentally are the only colours sheep come in.

 

The problem is clouds have transient qualities; small changes in temperature or pressure and they’re gone. Which is exactly what happened when 2e2 went bust earlier this year. The administrators promptly wrote to all the customers demanding a cool £960,000 to keep the servers switched on for just 9 days (yes nine days). They had 48 hours to pay up, or it was all going off forever.

Even more shockingly it transpired that 2e2 had farmed out data storage to third parties who now found themselves in the unsecured creditors' club. 2e2 didn’t even have your data, someone else did.

Now this was no small operator, 2e2 customers included NHS trusts, the Bank of England,  the Atomic Weapons Agency along with several high street brands and banks. This was big, very big.

And it happened so fast there was no chance of migrating possibly mission-critical data before the administrator's threatened to switch it all off.

Between iPhone 2 and iPhone 3 little Miss Mouse found the Apple cloud works in exactly the same way, here today gone tomorrow. All it takes is a small puff of wind.

Some things are very precious to me, too precious to entrust to anyone else.

So while others around here may be extolling with a passion the virtues of the cloud my clients can rest assured their data is going nowhere. It’s right here in my office on that disc raid in that box, with a copy here in my hand and a third at home.

As far as I’m concerned you can keep your clouds, I prefer the sunshine.
 

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By User deleted
24th Nov 2013 13:44

Clouds are essential

Clouds bring rain - perfect for splashing through puddles. And snow - I love watching snow falling. I wouldn't want sunshine all the time - variety is much nicer. 

And I love my iPad (American footy via the internet on the sofa) and my iPod (all my terrible music in one place so I can dance wherever I fancy). But Apple can keep the rest. Why would I need an all-singing, all-dancing phone when I barely use a phone at all, and prefer to do the singing and dancing myself....

p.s. I'd rather keep my data safe and sound in Flashville.

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By J_asonR
25th Nov 2013 15:19

Only in black and white?

Tell that to these sheep!

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By User deleted
25th Nov 2013 23:37

@ Flash

I can get the internet through my Sony Blu-Ray and watch it on a big screen (sparing these tired old eyes from squinting at a postage stamp screen) and my Sony Walkman MP3 is fine for listening to music whilst wreaking havoc on the weeds in my garden, or I can listen to stuff from media player as the Blu-Ray can also access my PC via wireless conection! All without the cringe making necessity for sliding my digits over a nausea inducing touch screen.

The only apples I'm interested in are ones that go in a crumble!

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By Mouse007
07th Dec 2013 23:10

Every time it rains

 

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