Comments on: AT&T’s team up with IBM is exactly the jolt “the cloud” needs

By: mtgbroker1

mtgbroker1 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Mind the CNN-Correct-coastal-urbanites clearly see through such fluffff.

By: BlazeEagle

BlazeEagle — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:57:00 +0000

I’ll only use cloud storage for trivial data. I don’t trust it for storing personal & confidential data like medical records.

By: AndrewCell

AndrewCell — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:54:00 +0000

“The tech-savvy, on the other hand, will recall that AT&T’s primary motivation has *always* been to fleece the customer.”? Now who’s stretching facts to make people believe what they want? No company can succeed solely by ripping people off. There is enough competition in the industry to allow people freedom to choose whatever they want. AT&T’s policies are no different that Verizon or the other carriers. AT&T is just singled out because historically they have been the biggest, although they haven’t been for a while.

By: Richard Tietjens

Richard Tietjens — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0000

A very nice “fluffer” article designed to support the Marketing Department’s attempts to sell advertising to ATT and IBM.

“If you’ve got AT&T, one trusted brand, and IBM, another trusted brand, joining in on one cross-branding project, their mutual trust for one another will blossom and grow in the public eye, providing a bit of synergy, as it were”

Assuming the “public” in question is fairly stupid, or simply tech-ignorant, you are correct. This collaboration will make the Fox-News-watching public believe that the result is good for them, without any critical analysis of the facts.

The tech-savvy, on the other hand, will recall that AT&T’s primary motivation has *always* been to fleece the customer. I trust IBM to make solid hardware; I trust ATT to find a way to overcharge and under-deliver (and then blame the customer when the complaints come in).

By: Michael Pekarik

Michael Pekarik — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Only if you don’t mid you data moving out of the country.

By: Michael Pekarik

Michael Pekarik — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:31:00 +0000

You know, this whole “cloud” thing sounds suspiciously like the old computing model where you purchased time on a mainframe and stored your data on their storage devices. Now comes the question of the near future; “Who owns the data?”, is it the company that generates the data or the company who is hosting it? Possession id 99% ownership.

By: tko

tko — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:31:00 +0000

With cloud, trust is a key for many/most… does anyone really trust AT&T? IBM too– with all that outsourcing to China & India?

By: Dan Hillman

Dan Hillman — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:30:00 +0000

This sounds like a puff piece.

By: huh?

huh? — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:58:00 +0000

Can someone please explain me how this is different from current cloud offerings? If you use Amazon AWS or Rackspace, you would be storing data on their servers and in this case the data would be stored on IBMs servers and accessible over cloud. That to me is the same as any other offerings and many major players are already doing it. For example, Verizon also has data storage services and stores data for clients such as InternContinental Hotels Group over “cloud”. So what’s different?

By: Chico

Chico — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:47:00 +0000

After the article, I’m even more apprehensive!

By: Timelost1

Timelost1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Security through branding brave new concept.

By: nodda suker

nodda suker — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:33:00 +0000