What do Cloud Computing and Farming have in common?

Many people cannot see a connection between these two things as they would seem to be a world apart but actually the connection is not in the work being done but in what it enables.

Farming is not always given the credit it deserves for what it gives us but think about what it would mean if it did not exist.  How many acres of land and head of livestock would you have to manage to feed your family for a year?  You may feel the once a week trip to Tesco's is arduous but without farmers doing this for you you would spend the majority of your life just arranging for the food you need to survive.  This is especially true if you assume that you have no access to other machinery, such as the tractor in the picture, to help you achieve your goals.

Why would this machinery be missing?  Well if you are constantly working in the fields you have not got time to invent and build a tractor.  Build from that and you realise that you have not got time to even sit and read a book and learn something, all you know is toiling in the fields.

Farmers doing this for us frees us to do all the other things we do, and some of those things help the farmers to get a bit of free time too.  None of this would work however if we did not trust that the farmers would deliver the food to Tesco's so that we could trade tokens for it despite having never set foot in a field.

So where is the connection between this and Cloud Computing?  The connection is the trust, we do not trust the cloud computing vendors to keep on doing this for us therefore we keep on doing it ourselves.  Keeping the systems working then takes up all our time and we have little time for working out how to do new things to improve the business.