• Just as cell phone providers have been using aggressive marketing and competitive pricing plans for decades, perhaps cloud database providers will also use highly publicised outages and security breaches to lure clients into making a quick and easy switch over to their cloud. If high value clients can move their big data to a new cloud provider overnight, then cloud providers will take security and availability very seriously.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho