Long live the cloud!
March 28, 2014
Grazed from SmartCEO. Author: Editorial Staff.
“Big Brother” is by no means a new notion, and in fact, George Orwell wrote about this very topic in his famous book “1984” over six decades ago. A recent example surfaced just recently when Edward Snowden disclosed top secret documents to prominent media outlets outing U.S. government Internet surveillance programs.
Another notable example of a privacy infringement was the Target data breach that occurred during the holiday shopping season of 2013. These poignant examples are just two among several that occurred during this past year, and they are enough to create trepidation around the conversation of cloud computing. The NSA spying scandal and the high-profile hacks have left many to wonder if the embrace of these data stores is happening too fast for safety’s sake…
Many of my small and mid-sized customers have begun relaying to me their concerns of uncertainty around cloud computing, and it is certainly understandable. A data breach to a small or mid-sized business would be catastrophic and possibly un-survivable. Fortunately, I am able to reassure them by discussing a cloud model that touts secured access to data all the while maintaining the simplicity and mobility that cloud computing has become famous for. Enter the private cloud…
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