Robert DeFazio, I am truly impressed with your answer. It seems well thought out and researched. But you seem to see no value in the Cloud whatsoever.

As an individual, I make use of certain select Cloud services. As a DBA, I currently do not make use of any cloud base databases professionally, but I could see a niche for them, especially when dealing with data that was not particularly sensitive.

Do you think there is any room for Cloud services alongside more traditional approaches?