I think Steve has hit it on the head. It is not going to be for all apps or all forms of business. The risk, just like the risk assocatied with a full recovery or a simple recovery, has to be thought about discussed and the cost has to be evaulated. DBA's will be needed and used, if not at the smaller company's on the cloud then at the host for the cloud. At the larger companies on the cloud there will probably still be dba's/architects available to help understand, use and protect the data. And there will be companies that will not move to the cloud, because it makes more sense not to. Just as there are applications that will leverage SAN's, Virtual servers in house well there will be those that are better off on standalone servers and disk's.

Nothing really scarry here, if we have our eye's open and are open to our managment about the risk's involved.

Mark 🙂