That trend would prove both costly for cloud data giants and difficult, upending the established model of cloud data storage that optimizes for efficiency rather than carefully sorting out what data is stored within the borders of which country.
Today's IOT is NOT: · Cost effective: Right now we employ costly centralized clouds and server farms.
Costs can also decrease indirectly, as file transfers can be costly especially in hybrid clouds where resources are not located within the facility of a single cloud vendor.
This exceeds the capacity of most desktop PCs and is costly to host on cloud-based computation services ($250 US/month on Amazon EBS or Microsoft Azure, as of March 2014).
Setting up and running these experiments in real cloud environments are costly.
Specifically, schedules are initially generated using grid resources, and cloud resources (relatively costlier) are used only for rescheduling to cope with a delay in job completion.
But scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office IMOO) in Reykjavík are now seasoned by back-to-back eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 and Grímsvötn in 2011 that produced large ash clouds and caused costly air traffic snarls.
With currently 20+ countries also considering similar privacy laws, the landscape will grow increasingly complex for cloud providers, and more costly for customers, thus chipping away at the beauty of the cloud.
Microsoft could win in the cloud, but survival could be costly.
But when the rain turned into fog after nightfall, the firework display was held as planned, its costly flares and sparkles vanishing into the cloud cover, illuminating the sky with indistinct, dissipated light.
