# kaal:claim:3808859-035

**Claim.** Cloud computing increased connectivity but simultaneously produced monolithic, siloed applications built for a single business, department, or role, and that fragmentation of data and content now impairs collaboration as well as the search, organization, and discovery of content.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Cloud computing has significantly increased connectivity in society and business but at the same time contributed to the creation of monolithic applications that solve a very specific problem for a specific business / department / role.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), V.5 Cloud Computing as Inertia for Decentralized Networks, page 44

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Failure mode.** cloud-induced application siloing  (family: interoperability-and-fragmentation)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** cloud-computing, data-fragmentation, silos, interoperability

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