Well worth reading (for more than just the Microsoft angles): Analyst: 'It is game over for Microsoft in consumer'
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From Mary-Jo Foley: Analyst: 'It is game over for Microsoft in consumer'
Ms. Foley reports on what one highly respected analyst sees coming in 2010 in terms of overall computing technology:
But what if Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and other leaders at Microsoft are wrong and integrating the consumer and business worlds doesn’t really matter? One very influential market watcher, Mark Anderson, author of the Strategic News Service newsletter, is betting that instead of a melding, there will be an increasing chasm between the consumer and business market.
He lists 10 predictions for 2010, some of which don't bode well for Microsoft. But since this isn't a Microsoft-centric list, I found a few of the items *very* interesting in terms of business impact, especially #6...
6. There will be a Cloud Catastrophe in 2010 that limits Cloud growth by raising security issues and restricting enterprise trust. CIOs will see the cloud as the doorstep for industrial espionage.
I think this is the biggest fear that many have with the whole move towards "the Cloud". You lose control of the physical possession of your data, and one industrious hacker can get into areas that were only fantasies when they sat behind corporate firewalls. That's not to say that premise data was always 100% safe either. But if you work in the US and your data is located in data centers in China, India, and a storage container in back of Joe's Bar and Grill, there's obviously more points of access.
I recommend reading the article and considering the different predictions he makes. 2010 could shape up to be an interesting year...
From Mary-Jo Foley: Analyst: 'It is game over for Microsoft in consumer'
Ms. Foley reports on what one highly respected analyst sees coming in 2010 in terms of overall computing technology:
But what if Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and other leaders at Microsoft are wrong and integrating the consumer and business worlds doesn’t really matter? One very influential market watcher, Mark Anderson, author of the Strategic News Service newsletter, is betting that instead of a melding, there will be an increasing chasm between the consumer and business market.
He lists 10 predictions for 2010, some of which don't bode well for Microsoft. But since this isn't a Microsoft-centric list, I found a few of the items *very* interesting in terms of business impact, especially #6...
6. There will be a Cloud Catastrophe in 2010 that limits Cloud growth by raising security issues and restricting enterprise trust. CIOs will see the cloud as the doorstep for industrial espionage.
I think this is the biggest fear that many have with the whole move towards "the Cloud". You lose control of the physical possession of your data, and one industrious hacker can get into areas that were only fantasies when they sat behind corporate firewalls. That's not to say that premise data was always 100% safe either. But if you work in the US and your data is located in data centers in China, India, and a storage container in back of Joe's Bar and Grill, there's obviously more points of access.
I recommend reading the article and considering the different predictions he makes. 2010 could shape up to be an interesting year...
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