We’ve all seen the massive move to cloud and push my Microsoft to get us all there even more. What concerns me is the fact that the NSA has been saving every single thing we’ve been doing in the cloud for years already via its Prism Program, without our knowledge.
Once the internet giants have got us 100% online, what’s stopping them from pulling the plug on us unless we fork out ridiculous sums of money? There are thousands of companies all over the world apart from the billions of people all storing everything online. How do we protect ourselves if Microsoft, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Youtube and friends join forces against us?
Funnily enough we are looking at a hosted co managed solution at the moment and one of the questions our Information security asked was “Do the NSA have access?”. The answer was no. But who really knows?
I see your point, get everyone on board and then control the cost. However, there are massive benefits to a company in being in the cloud. Its a bit of a conundrum and only time will tell. Put it like this, I dont put everything willy nilly in SkyDrive as some advise you to do! Then again, I dont even trust my wife… 🙂
