El Reg speaks on cloud and costings

Here's the link to a hunt for the chimera that is cloud costing

I just love, btw, that the link button for blogger is this eensy teensy green-blue blob with a pretzel above it - oh no sorry, that's a globe with a chain above it. A subject for this afternoon's nostaligic icon rant, no doubt...

Meanwhile, the cloud around cloud computing grows - and our information, along with our dropbox stored password text files (no, I don't do it: but many do) continue to migrate online while we make a nice cup of tea.

I have to be honest: the only thing the cloud means for me is that RIA UI designers like me get a crack at very serious, very high throughput UI design. So of course, it's all fun for me. As for the actual large scale price of aggregating that much data into more or less invisible data centres? Well, all I can say is, people manage their files badly enough on local machines. It makes me dizzy to think of the terabytes of files names "untitled_01(3).doc" currently circling the planet.

I'm not 100% sure how to seque this into the topic of why everyone should hire UX / UI people, but you can take it for granted that as soon as I do, I'll be back.