On 10/07/2011 10:40, Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Giles Coochey<gi...@coochey.net>  wrote:

Can your company afford to be without your apps and data for a couple of
weeks, while some hacker organisation has it?

I think not.
But it's not like you can't do both. The Cloud has the benefits of
convenience (available from anywhere) and flexibility (OS agnostic).
You would hope 1) That people back up their work (at least to other
locations in the Cloud), and 2) That they have a local substitute
suite of applications. And it's not like local machines are immune to
hardware and security break downs, especially for the majority who use
Windows.
Well, do both then, but at double the cost!!

The whole point to CEOs and CFOs about going with the Cloud is that they will save money on IT infrastructure and possibly get rid of 'that scruffy guy in the basement 'who's done our IT for the last few years'... they never really trusted him anyway, and 'Joe and Bill' from 'ABC Cloud Consulting' seemed like 'my kind of people on the Golf course last Thursday afternoon.'


At this point my music is stored online (Amazon, listening to it now),
a lot of my documents are created with Google Docs or Zoho, my email
is almost completely online (has been for years), my recent pictures
are stored and edited online (Picasa and Piknic), almost all my "TV"
watching is done online (Hulu, Crackle, TheWB) and a big chunk of my
movies are supplied from online sources (Hulu, Crackle, Netflix).
I'm not really referring to your music, movies and porn. I'm referring to the enterprise applications that corporations use.


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