"The cloud", Software-as-a-Service, Hosted Solutions, whatever you want to call it, is part of the evolution of networking. They are not _worried_ about it; they are embracing it (groove.com, mesh.com, office.live.com). However, it means fewer installed instances of Windows Server, Office, Exchange, etc over time.
Some companies that ARE rich enough to do it in house are still considering and some moving to hosted solutions because it saves them money. That is both reasonable and expected. Data breaches are not unexpected. I don't think anyone believes that it isn't possible. Or outages. Or data loss. Even Google and their perpetual beta lost a bunch of peoples' e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Thursday Funny For most companies (read, those that aren't rich enough to do it in house) "the cloud" is just another form of outsourcing, and a particularly bad one. Folks will come to realize that pretty quickly once the data breaches start happening in the cloud, just like they do inside of the company. I think MSFT's worries are not about the cloud - or at least, they shouldn't be. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, will...@lefkovics.net <will...@lefkovics.net> wrote: > I think the sentiment is that the worst is yet to come and the > increased trend toward the cloud (argh... i used a buzzword! I'm > doomed!) means fewer physical 'seats' for their products. > > They answer to their shareholders, not their employees or their > customers (though obviously ignoring the latter two will impact the former). > > Hey... I'm a shareholder. > > Ballmer's letter: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10147964-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&; > tag=2547-1_3-0-5 > > > ________________________________ > From: "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:45 AM > To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" > <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: RE: [OT] Thursday Funny > > I don't quite get their gloom and doom though. From that article: > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
