Old Lady Grumbles About New Thingy

The Bank of England is loosening up on IT delivery and recruitment, but not its resistance to public cloud.

After a few thousand articles on the benefits of cloud computing, it’s hard to imagine what kind of company would resist the lure to move to the cloud.

Around about the time that Adobe moved its software products 'lock, stock and barrel' over to a subscription based licensing program, we were being bombarded with hyped up ‘Cloud’ stories that proclaimed “Armageddon” for ‘Perpetual / on-Premises’ (we’ll refer to 'Perpetual / on-Premises' as ‘non-Cloud’) software markets by the year 2015 / 2016.

Stick that online service up your SaaS

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Adobe’s spectacular FAIL over the last 48 hours confirmed, rather than revealed, cloud computing to be so unreliable as to be positively dangerous. Cloud computing is shite. It takes over everything you’ve got, then farts in your face and runs away giggling. Find out more here.