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No matter which IT news channel you read, there’s no way you missed the dozens of articles about Cloud Computing which have been released in 2009 up to now. It looks like 2009 is the year of the Cloud, more than ever. In fact I believe that the Cloud is a great model for many applications, eventually even more than you’d think right now.
There are some things though you want to consider when planning to move your app to the Cloud. These two articles are good starting points:

• Lost in the Cloud by Jonathan Zittrain
• Cloud Computing by Bruce Schneier

There was an article on TechCrunch about what can happen if all the data of you company is in the Cloud: The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack.

All the risks which come along with the Cloud Computing model don’t speak against the model itself. It’s all just about mastering these risks to make that model successful long term.