Dude, you clearly don't appreciate the cloud for what it is. It has nothing to do with showing off, and everything to do with keeping a company working on things it is good at. It's about efficiency, and automating a huge cost center in a company.
I know a cosmetics company here in Tokyo. They have an IT team. They have an in-house server farm, and most of it is just for advertisements / campaigns, etc... It is a huge expense (Server manager + programmers + line from NTT + etc...). Most of all, it is entirely outside of the company's expertise. The president/ceo is a wonderful hard-working person, but she can't tell an iPhone from a car phone. She certainly couldn't tell you whether the Sun or HP server she bought was any good; it was just what the sales people told her. Cloud to the rescue. She doesn't have to waste time with computer salespeople. IT people move to jobs where they can do interesting stuff instead of making sure a hard disk problem isn't causing a web outage for a heavily flash-based site. Moreover, instead of spending corporate mindshare on IT, Amazon gets a check and handles almost all of the headaches (apparently even backups). It's a lot better than having a full time CTO and a team of server engineers / web programmers. The idea that some form of SQL is somehow more secure than any other form of database interaction is frankly ridiculous. Feel free to look up the sordid history of addslashes and mysql_real_escape_string on PHP if you don't believe me. Storing someone's unencrypted important personal information on a server you don't own is insane, but that's what public key encryption and intermediary servers are for. It's a lot easier to maintain such minor infrastructure as opposed to the difficulty in having a full network to withstand 1000-2000 simultaneous connections (or more). (If the encrypted part of your website is getting those many connections, you probably can afford to deal with the problem in a more traditional way.) The cloud kicks ass when you need to do something quickly. It can be made to kick ass with minor investments if you want to do something securely. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM, SivaTumma <sivatu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the cloud is meant for open social, blogs, etc or more > straight forward, it is for the ones who wish to show off. > People coined an opinion saying " No one who has to ensure security, > would probably never use appengine or any cloud.. may be simpleDB of > amazon". > > People who are considered of security, may have to wait till the > AppEngine folks introduce their SQL support. probably, that would have > more security. > and then, Domain specific access scenario in google apps would > probably help too. > > But, I hope to see this discussion continue till it resolves in a > fruitful end-result. ( Something that is reliable, authorized > information. ) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Sincerely yours, Jawaad Mahmood http://www.jawaadmahmood.com 080-4204-7198 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
