Why Cloud Is A Double Edged Sword

Grazed from BusinessWorld.  Author: Ajay Gupta.

 few years back we used to store hard copies of the images we clicked in smart, colourful albums. Those were the days when the best we could do to preserve our important documents was to put them in a folder. With the advent of today’s fast paced digital age, these safe-keeping tasks have been pushed to Cloud. Ironically, we are made to believe that our personal data is safe on some remote server that is unknown to us and out of our physical reach!

No wonder the recent series of Cloud Storage hacks and password leaks has managed to spread pandemonium amongst the enterprises and the users alike. One is left to wonder that inspite of major chinks in its armour, why are more and more number of enterprises pushing for Cloud?…


 Cloud Computing basically means outsourcing the data which was earlier stored on your personal storage. If you have an email account or are on a social networking site, like Twitter or Facebook, you are using cloud. The data is stored on servers operated by hosting companies…

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