Pie in the Sky: What's the Ultimate Share for Cloud Solutions?

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Pie in the Sky: What's the Ultimate Share for Cloud Solutions?

jon.luers

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June 28, 2016 at 2:05 pm

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With all the marketing focus on cloud-based solutions, I wonder what professionals think will be the end result--will practically everything end up in the cloud eventually, or how significant a share would stay local?
I may be overlooking some of the advantages of the cloud, but I think the main ones are things like ubiquitous access and platform independence, robust infrastructure administration with economies of scale, and ease of system evaluation and deployment, as well as support for global dispersion and flexibility of the user base.
I may be underestimating the growing ubiquity, speed, and security of Internet access, but I have to think that there will always be significant concerns about committing mission-critical data and processing to remote outsourced systems. These are some of the issues that give me pause about cloud systems:
- Ubiquity and Latency: The Internet is still not always available with the speed and reliability I'd like, and the unpredictable delay inherent in routing interactions halfway across the country can be frustrating. Furthermore, systems that rely on significant back-end data have to be filled and updated over the same public channels.
- Security: Encrypted communication channels may be secure (until the next Heartbleed-scale vulnerability), and cloud-scale IT may be pretty robust, but the sheer volume of data in most clouds would seem to make them all the more tempting targets for professional intruders and obstructers. I can't imagine that enterprises wouldn't always want to keep their most proprietary data in their exclusive control.
- Compatibility: Standards will no doubt evolve, but I'm sure there will always be competing, incompatible cloud systems ("banks"?).
It also seems like moving to a cloud-based system is a way of outsourcing--do you think most DBAs will ultimately work at Amazon, Microsoft, or Oracle?
Thanks for your insight.
Jon Luers
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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 1

jon.luers (6/28/2016)
With all the marketing focus on cloud-based solutions, I wonder what professionals think will be the end result--will practically everything end up in the cloud eventually, or how significant a share would stay local?

Local systems will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. 😀 Or so they say. Me? I'm old science... Battlestar Galactica and non-computerized fighters and all. The Cylons can't take remote control of them. I like GPS but can still read a map. Love fuel injection but hate computer controlled vehicles... heh... can't overclock them. 😛 And, I miss my flip-phone.

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jon.luers SSC Journeyman Points: 79 More actions · Answer 2

Seriously, what percentage of databases do you think would never move to the cloud? 40%?

Should this be moved to a different forum?

Thanks,

Jon Luers