http://arstechnica.com/business/inside-the...on-disaster.ars?
Of course, that raises the question - why go there in the first place?
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"We'll have a huge blow up with terrorism in the cloud and the PC will regain its full glory," said R. Ray Wang, a partner in The Altimeter Group and a blogger on enterprise strategy. "People will lose confidence as cyber attacks cripple major systems. In fact, cloud will be there but we'll be stuck in hybrid mode for the next 40 years as people live with some level of fear."
The Mozilla Foundation's Nathaniel James concurs, telling Pew to "expect a major news event involving a cloud catastrophe (security breach or lost data) to drive a reversion of these critical resources back to dedicated computing."