{"id":343,"date":"2009-11-22T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-11-22T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T12:16:26","slug":"whose-cloud-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketharaman.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/whose-cloud-is-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Cloud Is It Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WordPress admin website<\/a><\/strong> has lately been urging an upgrade\u00a0\u00a0to its latest 2.8.6 version.<\/p>\n

\"wc_pic01_300w\"<\/a>I only recently upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4. I admit that I’d significantly delayed this upgrade, but the problems I’d faced and resolved<\/strong><\/a> during this upgrade\u00a0are still fresh in my mind. Since it’s\u00a0a bit too soon to undergo\u00a0a repeat of that ordeal, I’ve\u00a0been taking the latest summons from WordPress a bit lightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then,\u00a0suddenly it struck me that, I use WordPress off the cloud since there’s no copy of the software anywhere in my premise, so why should I be bothered about upgrades at all? \u00a0After all, isn’t cloud computing supposed to take care of of administration, updates, upgrades and all such things, thus freeing the user\u00a0from all forms of onerous IT tasks?<\/p>\n

I guess the answer lies in where your software\u00a0 is installed – ‘your cloud’,\u00a0‘my cloud’ or ‘cloud-cloud’ wherever\u00a0 that might be. Talk of Many Things\u00a0is deployed on\u00a0the space (cloud?) provided by a third-party hosting provider and not on WordPress.com, so it presumably falls into the ‘my cloud’ category and I’m far from being relieved\u00a0of\u00a0admin tasks. Sigh!<\/p>\n

Now, if there’re various clouds, the natural question is, who\u00a0is responsible for ensuring interoperability between them?<\/p>\n

Although we have the assurance of Mr. Sundar Pichai, Vice President, Product Management, Google during a recent Economic Times interview<\/a><\/strong> that clouds have “lot more possibility for interoperability” since they are built on open standards, I’ve this growing suspicion that we’re going to be hearing a lot more about\u00a0this subject in the coming months and years and the dreadful\u00a0– though resigned – feeling\u00a0that we haven’t seen the last of WordPress’s summons\u00a0to upgrade versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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