Interested in Cloud Computing
Here is a good website that may help in your examination of cloud v server issues as well as some other in-sites I have gathered (I wrote a paper in my masters InfoSys class on it last year).
Moving to all cloud based system is not a proven technology yet. Security and maintenance of a companies own files will still require a hard backup somewhere on and off site.
100% cloud based companies are out there if you google it however they are considered XLB (Extremely Lightweight Business). Where the only files they need to maintain are files like Microsoft office files and other sales data reports (SaaS) and software building codes (C++ files).
100% cloud based is it for anyone yet?
Two examples are Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite and these have both had major security issues with their software and “cloud files” recently which could mean bad news for us as those are the two main programs used by our company. Both examples require a monthly fee to use the “service programs (or apps)” we would no longer have “physically installed programs” that we pay for once. Overall this pay per month mentality of “service programs” would initially save money but in the long run we will end up paying substantially more with extra fees being added to contracts as the technology grows monthly.
In my opinion 100% cloud based systems is an unproven still growing technology that will need to be proven to work before anyone can use it. A hybrid system could potentially work for many companies on a daily basis and which most are already using. I would still want one location I could call my own.
