If you fear the cloud, you’re behind the times

Five years ago, Australian businesses were reluctant to use the cloud. Fast-talking cloud evangelists might have been extolling the cloud’s virtues, but businesses were concerned about where their data was going, and how it was being protected.  Security was their number-one worry, and rightly so.

 

But that’s changed, according to Don McLean, managing director of Frendo Australia and a veteran of the cloud design and integration business — if one can have veterans in such a young industry…

 

"People will always talk about security, ‘Where’s my data?’, and so forth, and that’s not going to go away. [But] it’s become less of a top-five issue than it was in the past, and it’s more now about ‘OK, I want to lower my cost of doing business. I want to increase the amount of innovation that I’ve got," McLean told journalists at a lunchtime briefing in Sydney on Thursday…

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