"everything as a service" - Cloud Is Internet's Next Generation, HP Executive Says - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
not really breaking news except HP's posture on Cloud. I can see a "we are not a printer company anymore" ads....similar to Amazon a while back. A noteworthy mention is HP's new Photosmart Pro web enabled printer. - SnakeDoc
Interesting. Everyone is getting into that game. - Roberto Bonini
"Everything as a service" is nonsense hype that ignores what happens when the service provider experiences a failure/outage/hiccup. Unlike local resources, you can't fix it yourself, you have to wait for the service operator to do so. Oh yeah, and if said cloud is going out of business, you're stuck with whatever data retrieval methods they give you. Just ask the folks who'd uploaded 1000s of photos to Kodak's service, only to have it go out of biz but allow them to recover only 1 photo at a time. People need to stop pitching the whole cloud thing as if it's the Jesus of the future. There are many applications it's good for, but there are also many for which it is just a really poor fit. - LANjackal