27th November 2013, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by blackdog1
Cloud was pushed on us early on and been touted as the best thing since sliced bread.
My boss is fairly old fashioned if one can say that about an IT guy and after some trial and eval. he decided it's not for us.
I heard some horror stories too, but regardless it seems to work for others, good luck to them I say.
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Yep I'm an old fashioned IT guy, there have been numerous reports of hackers accessing the Cloud. Most companies have credit card numbers, full personnel details including bank account details, trust and business account details etc etc and all the information a hacker would need to set up several clone identities and use those identities to siphon funds.Just recently a number of companies including Adobe and Racing Post have emailed me to say they had security breaches and although it's encrypted, a hacker has all the time in the world to work it out, once he's downloaded all the data. Happened to Betfair accounts also.
Cloud may be good for hosting unimportant files like iTunes music, but confidential and banking details is asking for trouble. Also most companies trust Microsoft to have uncorrupted backups, I know of a few ocassions where the backups were corrupted and all company information was lost forever!
Going to be loads of fun come Tax time!!!
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