Mythbusting the cloud

There is no escaping ‘The Cloud’ these days. Everywhere you look someone is either offering an innovative ‘in the cloud’ version of a service you’ve been quite happily using for years without problem, or warning you that the cloud is an insecure or expensive place that your business should avoid at all costs. The number of articles appearing online and in print which, just as this blog entry has done I admit, promise to spell out the myths (or indeed truths) of cloud computing is growing exponentially. The problem being that it has got to the point where it is getting hard to separate fact from fiction, or at least balanced opinion from weighted hyperbole.