Windows 7: Your tech career depends on preparing for the cloud

Your tech career depends on preparing for the cloud | Security Central - InfoWorld

More like - Prepare for your career in IT to be outsourced for the "Cloud" (for those in IT in the U.S. that is).

I guarantee there will be much more off-site IT work with the "Cloud" - and I wouldn't be surprised if that meant more "Cloud" like IT components and needs.

My big question is:

Are IT related courses of study preparing students for the "Cloud"?

Colleges/Universities? CompTIA? MS? Cisco? etc?

It's pretty annoying that they insist on this... even if some organizations are trying to use this doesn't mean that everyone would accept it... and they may be proofs of this before saying so...

What's the new stuff around the cloud? I don't see my carrer pending on this unless they want to FORCE every user to store their information there, which sounds pretty rude and suspicious...

See ya!!!

I wonder how needs will be met (both technically and financially) considering they will vary from business model to business model (and personal usage as well)

Adding another argument for a tiered internet. It is going to be so convoluted and we know the infrastructure changes (and charges) will be trickled down to regular internet/Cloud users.

This could very well be a very bad idea on so many levels: cost, security, accessibility, privacy...

They're just trying to bring computing to the Care Bares.

This may be true, long-range, but it is not true in the immediate future.
1) Connection speed/quality/bandwidth is not uniformly adequate for Cloud
2) Windows (and other OS'es) are ready for it yet
3) too many companies use blockers to keep employees from reaching/using online storage or cloud apps.

Oh, sure, you can connect and use Cloud. It's "possible". But there are currently too many hurddles.
In my opion, the best way to use Cloud is with something that sync's, but that runs locally. And this should be seamless, requiring no technical expertise. This kind of means that the OS has to handle all this, and account setup should walk you through a very short wizard giving the option of whether to store a profile/apps locally or on the cloud.
Windows 8 might do this, but I doubt it. Maybe by the time Windows 9 comes around, we'll be there. Maybe 6-10 years away.

It will never work - Look, we are already having bandwidth problems because of one company, Netflix - Just imagine what kind of Internet Bandwidth would be required if EVERYBODY had to do EVERYTHING online - What a Joke

Besides would YOU trust the "Cloud" with everything YOU have ?????
Not me - never.

And are you willing to WAIT to download/upload on those "Bad Internet Days" ????
Not me - never

And the Gov already wants to start regulating the Internet - Wanna Trust Them ???
Not me - ever

It's Google's "Wish List if they could have anything"
A Pipe Dream

And when does every household get high speed fiber optics for 10 to 50 Mbsec download speeds ??? So many are still on Dial-Up and DSL !!!

It will never work, in My Opinion

Cloud equals "big brother"

+1 to both of you.

I think once people realize that true "cloud computing" entails every single byte of data they possess being stored offsite with no local access, the tide will turn against the idea of using fully cloud-based computing.

The "cloud" is a very bad thing, anytime you put your trust in someones hands other than your own your asking for trouble as far as your privacy and freedoms to do what you want. I wouldn't put my information there....It just one more step to take us over more than they already have!!!!!