Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We reinvent the past and give it a new name.

IBM is pushing into the cloud computing business. They are “behind” the competition, but have hopes of making ground and money with “hybrid” technologies.

Let’s consider this idea of hybrid cloud. I trust the cloud provider to keep my stuff reliably and safely. Still, I’ll hedge my bets and keep my own copy on my own network, thank you.

Go back 20 years. I trust that disk drive hidden inside the computer to keep my stuff reliably and safely. Still, I’ll hedge my bets and keep my own copy on my own floppy disk, thank you.

I’ll hedge my bets and keep my own copy, thank you. The more things change, the more we repeat old cliches.