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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		Cloud Snake Oil
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:06
	Publish Date:		2018-04-23 20:00:00
	Description:		I'm sure that those of you reading this have a variety of opinions about the "cloud". Actually, I'd guess that many of us have different definitions of what the cloud actually means. That's fine, since it's really an amorphous, marketing term that encompasses quite a bit of different technologies, services, and products from many different companies. Some of you might use the cloud, and if you do, then perhaps this will ring true to you. I was reading Dr. Greg Low's blog, and he asked the question in a post about what a managed service was. In this case, Dr. Low was looking to host his blog on some service, and apparently the definition of a managed service varied from provider to provider. His first provider didn't tell him that backups were being run, with each file being counted against the space that he'd contracted for. When he asked for them to be deleted, he was told it would take a day or two as there wasn't anyone to provide the service. Read the rest of Cloud Snake Oil
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