I don't trust the cloud, at least not yet. That's not to say I'm not interested in it, so Slashdot has a discussion today about a study by UC Berkeley on
Obsticles facing Cloud Computing. The study outlines ten obstacles:
1 Availability of Service
2 Data Lock-In
3 Data Confidentiality and Auditability
4 Data Transfer Bottlenecks
5 Performance Unpredictability
6 Scalable Storage
7 Bugs in Large Distributed Systems
8 Scaling Quickly
9 Reputation Fate Sharing
10 Software Licensing
This comment gets at my big problem with the cloud:
I'm surprised they don't mention my biggest pet peeve with cloud services: lack of operational transparency. . . It's a big black box and you're just supposed to trust [it]