It's the way of the future. It would take a very well organized attack to take out all the data centers. In the case of Azure, you can use replication across several centers in different countries and several in the US.

>Hi,
> I see Obama has mandated all departments embrace the cloud. See:- http://www.partnerpoint.com/News/EntryId/467/Obama-mandates-embrace-of-cloud-computing-for-all-federal-agencies-By-Kenneth-Corbin.aspx
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> Due to the infrastructure cost savings there could be a rush to this type of provisioning.
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> The problem I see is of strategic importance, the current model is highly distributed i.e. robust, difficult to take out, where as coalescing
>the systems into only several data centres is dangerous i.e. it could quite easily be taken out, with major long term disruption to all systems.
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> How does everyone see the future of the cloud.